Faculty: Forestry
Program: Master of Sustainable Forest Management
Year: 2021
Country: Nigeria
Shukurah identifies as a smart, diligent, and persistent individual with a penchant for academic excellence. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management at the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAAB), Abeokuta, Nigeria with First-Class Honours and was the best student. Actively passionate about volunteerism and community development services, Shukurah continuously strives to give back to her community. During her tenure as the President of the Agro-Allied Community Development Services group, at the National Youth Service Corp Program (NYSC) she organized empowerment programs to train indigenous farmers in Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria on the use of neem plants as plant-based pesticides for insect control.
Shukurah is a young conservationist and a citizen scientist for the Nigeria South West Atlas Team where she worked with wildlife professionals traveling across several states to collect data on birds for the Nigeria Bird Atlas Project. She recently volunteered at the FUNAAB Zoological Park, a position that allowed her to work with wildlife and build up her wildlife photography skills.
Her decision to study Master of Sustainable Forest Management (MSFM) at UBC stemmed from her desire to engage in collaborative researches with a diverse community to address forest-related issues and environmental degradation. She is confident that MSFM will refine her skills and knowledge of conservation to create strategic measures necessary to increase the focus of forest and biodiversity conservation for sustainability in her home country. Ultimately, Shukurah looks forward to becoming a voice of change with an interdisciplinary approach in the Nigerian Forestry Sector.