WiNN member Purnima Devi Barnam chosen as one of Time Magazine’s 2025 Women of the Year for her work saving the endangered Greater Adjutant stork!

Three women in the WiNN collective — Ankita Shah, Kayce Anderson, and Rebecca Kormos— were speakers at a TEDx event screened at watch parties and in homes around the world on January 19, 2025. All are women innovating solutions protecting habitats and species and increasing gender equity. Other speakers included Zainab Salbi from Daughters for Earth; Jacqueline Farmer from Nature Through Her Eyes/VII Foundation and many more inspiring women working on behalf of women and our planet!

Florence Aghoma was awarded the 2024 Young Women in Conservation Biology (YWCB) Award by the Society for Conservation Biology Africa Region’s Young Women in Conservation Biology initiative.

Rebecca Kormos, one of WiNN’s 14 original founding members, just published a new book exploring the deep weave of connection between women, nature, and climate justice. Her deeply researched, beautiful book has been endorsed by Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Cristina Mittermeier and Ashley Judd, among others.

Purnima Devi Barman, a wildlife biologist from India, was awarded the 2024 Whitley Gold Award to continue her work to protect the Greater Adjutant Stork – or ‘hargila’ in the local language – and its wetland habitat. The work of Purnima and her “Hargila Army” comprised of thousands of local women have helped quadruple the number of local birds to more than 1,800. Looking ahead, Purnima now wants to double the global population of the bird to 5,000 by 2030, working across the stork’s range in India and Cambodia.
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