Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and geographer from Mbororo in the Republic of Chad. She was educted in the city of N'Djamena and spent her holidays with the Mbororo people, a nomadic farming indigenous group, as she grew older she started to see how she was discriminated against for her indiginaity and gender. These actions pushed her to found the Association for Indigenous Peul Woman and Peoples of Chad which supports the rights of women in Mbororo and advocate for environmental protection.

Ibrahim's evenrironmental efforts stem from her first hand experience as a "victim" to climate change directly attacking their Indigenous lifestyle. Lake Chad is an essential water source for many surrounding countries and allows for thir survival and that of the animals in these countries.