About

Nature Friend Society (NFS) Panvel :

Nature Friend Society (NFS) Panvel is a registered Non-Governmental Organization registered under ‘Societies Act’ of 1860. Established Year 1st August, 2016, we are based in Panvel Corporation. The Main objective of our organization is not to make our profit or loss but to preserve wildlife and nature and to create awareness among people about every aspect of nature and working towards to reduce human wildlife conflicts. We take as many wildlife and nature related programs as possible through our organization. It also organizes various nature related essay writing or speech competition and nature camps. Also we are doing snake and other wildlife rescue work in Panvel/Navi Mumbai with forest Department. The organization also organizes fort conservation, plantation and cleanliness campaigns.We have around 95 to 100 Volunteers in our organization.

Santosh Udare, 

Founder, Nature Friends Society (NFS) Panvel

Since 1998, he has been doing snake rescue and awareness work through the Indian Herpetological Society (Pune). So far, they have rescued more than thousands of snakes. He founded Nature Friend Society (NFS) Panvel in 2016 to work on snakes and all other wildlife, to remove the myths about snakes from people's minds, to give more information about them, and to work in society about nature. So that maximum information about wildlife can reach people and create awareness about snakes, after the establishment of the organization, through the organization and the forest department, many schools and colleges are working to spread awareness about nature, wildlife, and snakes. Also, work has been done to extinguish wildfires by raising public awareness so that wildfires do not occur.