Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry, Msc, M.Phil

Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry, a Pakistani national, is a conservation biologist with over 25 years of national and international professional experience in research, conservation and natural resource and wildlife management. He studied Zoology at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, Pakistan, Environmental Biology at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan and Conservation Biology with a specialization in Ornithology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has authored and co-authored species conservation and action plans, management plans for protected areas and over 50 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals, including the most prestigious journal “Nature”.

In 1999, he began his professional carrier with the Ornithological Society of Pakistan, working on the Asian Vulture Crisis Project in Pakistan under the training and coordination of The Peregrine Fund. During this period, he collaborated with renowned raptor biologists worldwide and was part of the team that identified the cause of the population decline of White-rumped Vultures (Gyps bengalensis) and published the results “Diclofenac residues as the cause of population decline of White-backed Vultures in Pakistan” in Nature in 2004.

In 2008, he joined WWF-Pakistan, dedicating his efforts to the conservation and management of various wildlife species. For the past two decades, he has been monitoring the population of the Great Indian Bustard in Pakistan. From 2017 to 2019, he conducted extensive surveys to assess the populations of the Asian Houbara Bustard in the Punjab province. Currently, he serves as the Senior Manager of Research and Conservation and is the focal point for the Biodiversity Practice at WWF-Pakistan. In this role, he oversees research initiatives, implement conservation projects, develops conservation strategies, and coordinates efforts to protect and sustain biodiversity within the region.