Sumaira Abdulali, born 22 May 1961 is an environmentalist from Mumbai, India, founder of the NGO Awaaz Foundation and convenor of the Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists (MITRA).

She was co-chairman of the Conservation Subcommittee and honorary secretary of Asia's oldest and largest environmental NGO, the Bombay Natural History Society, and was a Governing Council Member between 2008 and 2021.

[3][4][5] Through legal interventions, advocacy and public campaigns, contribution to documentary films, television debates and press articles she has successfully mainstreamed and built consciousness about previously unknown environmental hazards, notably noise pollution[6] and sand mining,[7][8] and has won national and International awards for her work.

[13] In 2006, Abdulali founded Awaaz Foundation, a registered public trust to support her work in environmentalism, named for the Marathi and Hindi word for "noise".

[30] In 2017, based on Abdulali's data, the Bombay High Court issued Contempt Notices to officers of the Mahim Police Station and the Municipal Commissioner, Mumbai for violation of Noise Rules.

[31] In 2018, under directions of the Bombay High Court during compliance hearings NEERI carried out noise mapping of all 27 major cities of Maharashtra,[32] the first comprehensive official studies in the country.

After the ban came into force, in 2010, Abdulali, along with journalists and local activists, traveled to Bankot creek in the Raigad district of Maharashtra to document photographic evidence of ongoing illegal sand mining.

After surveying the site and recording purportedly illegal activity on video, Abdulali and her associates say that their car was pursued through a lonely area and struck by another vehicle driven by the sand mafia.

The film won numerous International Awards and inspired the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to publish a Global Environmental Alert in March 2014 titled "Sand: Rarer Than One Thinks".

[55][56] After a screening of the film in Mumbai in January 2014, she conducted an awareness campaign along with Denis Delestrac at Juhu Beach 'Don't Bury the Issue of Sand Mining.'

[64] Without conducting any investigations, Minister of State for Home (Rural) Deepak Vasant Kesarkar ruled out the possibility that sand mining was responsible for the Mahad bridge collapse.

[65] In 2011, Abdulali filed public interest litigation to oppose leases issued by the Government of Maharashtra to allow open-pit mining in the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg corridor of the Western Ghats.

Abdulali and others argued that such mining would have a disruptive effect on local wildlife in the biodiverse Sawantwadi-Dodamarg corridor, which provides a habitat for such endangered species as leopards and tigers.

[67][68][69] In 2013, the Bombay High Court granted the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg corridor ESA status and issued an order that the government impose a moratorium on mining activities in the area to preserve biodiversity.