About Us
About PARN FOUNDATION
PARN FOUNDATION is a Mumbai-based wildlife conservation organisation
PARN FOUNDATION is a Mumbai-based wildlife conservation organisation working to protect India’s wildlife by strengthening the communities who have lived alongside it for generations. Across India’s forests, grasslands, and high-altitude ecosystems, wildlife and people share landscapes, livelihoods, and histories.
Indigenous and forest-dependent communities have long coexisted with wildlife, carrying deep ecological knowledge shaped by lived experience. Yet, their voices are often absent from mainstream conservation narratives.
Indigenous and forest-dependent communities have long coexisted with wildlife, carrying deep ecological knowledge shaped by lived experience. Yet, their voices are often absent from mainstream conservation narratives.
Our work is founded on a simple but critical belief:
wildlife conservation can only succeed when indigenous communities—especially children and youth—are recognised as leaders, knowledge holders, and equal partners.
PARN FOUNDATION works at the intersection of wildlife protection, indigenous empowerment, education, and ethical storytelling to support long-term coexistence between people and nature.
PARN FOUNDATION works at the intersection of wildlife protection, indigenous empowerment, education, and ethical storytelling to support long-term coexistence between people and nature.
Mission and Vision
Empowering indigenous communities to protect India’s wildlife and build a future where people and nature thrive together.
Our Founders
Anjali
Co-Founder
Anjali is a wildlife photographer, conservationist, and producer whose work is rooted in long-term engagement with India’s wild landscapes. Driven by a deep and enduring passion for wildlife, she spends extensive time in forests documenting species, supporting indigenous communities, and developing conservation education initiatives for children and youth.
Her work integrates visual storytelling with on-ground conservation, with a strong focus on coexistence, cultural respect, and future generations. Anjali is currently working on an in-depth tiger conservation project that addresses human–wildlife conflict and the long-term protection of shared landscapes.
Mandar
Co-Founder
Mandar is a wildlife filmmaker and conservation practitioner with extensive field experience documenting some of India’s rarest and most elusive wild cat species, including the Eurasian lynx, snow leopard, Pallas’s cat, tiger, and leopard.
He spends most of his time living and working in forests and remote ecosystems, collaborating closely with indigenous communities and Forest & Wildlife Departments. His work focuses on ethical filmmaking, coexistence, rewilding perspectives, and strengthening ground-level conservation systems. Mandar is currently engaged in a major tiger-focused project aimed at reducing conflict and safeguarding India’s wildlife future.
Testimonials
What They are Talking
About Parn Foundation
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Dianne Russell
Founder
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Robert Fox
Volunteer
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Volunteer
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Jhone Doe
Volunteer
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Dianne Russell
Founder
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
Robert Fox
Volunteer
We don't need a contract, do we doing some work for us pro bono will really add to your portfolio i promise, and this is just.
Jane Cooper
Volunteer
We should leverage existing asserts that ladder up to the message. Pass the mayo, appeal to the client, sue the vice president.
Jhone Doe
Volunteer
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