Uzma Khan is a zoologist, conservationist

Conservationist

Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...

 and animal welfare activist

Animal rights

Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...

 from Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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Career

Uzma Khan did her MSc in 'Applied Animal Behavior and Welfare'. She specialized in 'Endangered Species Management'.

Uzma has been working at WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States...

-Pakistan since 1998. Currently, she works as a project manager and has been involved in major conservation projects like Indus River Dolphin Project, Snow Leopard Project and Gyps Vulture Restoration Programme.

She also worked as an educationalist at Lahore Zoo

Lahore Zoo

Lahore Zoo in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, established in 1872, one of the largest zoos in South Asia. It is currently managed by the Wildlife and Parks department of the Government of Pakistan. Today the zoo houses a collection of about 1380 animals of 136 species...

. In 2006, she left the office and was succeeded by Bushra Khan.