Despite its significance as a tiger habitat, the Satpuda region has received little attention and support from both NGOs and the government. As a result the continuity of tiger habitat is increasingly under threat from development and infrastructure projects, logging, mining and poaching. There is an urgent need for ground surveys and scientific assessments to guide conservation action aimed at maintaining the viability of existing tiger habitats and even expanding them. Against this background, the Satpuda Foundation was established to highlight the biodiversity of the Central Indian Highlands (i.e. the Satpuda mountain range), educate different sections of the society about its importance and to tackle threats to the area’s forests and wildlife through well-coordinated research oriented conservation action. This seems to be the only way to protect this region, the world’s largest contiguous tiger habitat.

The Satpuda Foundation was thus formed with the specific aim of protecting wildlife, conducting research to support conservation action and educating sections of the society about the short and long term benefits of protecting this magnificent mountain range.

The main objectives of the Satpuda Foundation are to:

• Impart conservation education to young conservationists. 
  

• Impart anti-poaching training to forest and wildlife wing staff and other select individuals. 
  

• Conduct anti-poaching operations to stop the illegal wildlife trade in central India. 
  

• Conduct training workshops for enforcement authorities, government agencies and NGOs.

• Conduct detailed field investigations in areas that are considered particularly important for the tiger. 

• Assist villagers that seek voluntary rehabilitation from Protected Areas. 

• Assess the environmental impacts of developmental projects such as dams, mines, etc. 
  

• Undertake specific research programmes to guide the framing of wildlife conservation policies. 
  

• Initiate research and conservation programmes for specific threatened species in the Satpuda region.
  

• Community conservation work in villages surrounding Sanctuaries, National Parks and Tiger Reserves to reduce Human-Wildlife conflict.