Biography:
Asif Khan is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Central Asia in Khorog, Tajikistan, majoring in Earth and Environmental Science. He come from Hunza, Pakistan, and his passion for environmental issues stems from personal experiences with climate change and displacement. He had worked on projects related to glacial melt in the Pamirs, medicinal plant conservation, and GIS mapping. He had served as a teaching assistant and participated in several Model UN conferences, youth leadership programs, and translation projects. He is fluent in Wakhi, Urdu, English, and Tajik, and learning Persian and Russian. He enjoy writing poetry and research, and he committed to using education, science, and cross-cultural collaboration to promote sustainability and resilience in vulnerable regions.
Title : Nature’s living legacy: Ethnobotanical wisdom and indigenous plant use in gulmit, Hunza