Los Gatos teenagers use photos, website to track wildlife and educate public

Two Los Gatos High School students are using their passions for photography and wildlife to form an organization to inform Silicon Valley residents about how to coexist with their wild animal neighbors.

Arnav Singhal, 15, and Parham Pourahmad, 15, are aspiring researchers who lead the Silicon Valley Wildlife Group, which aims to monitor and educate Bay Area residents on local wildlife. The teens are working on registering the organization as a nonprofit, but they have already set up social media pages and a website to showcase their photography and research efforts.

“In the future, we want to expand our organization to actually do some of the things we wanted to do, partnering with different community organizations and expanding it into a nonprofit and making the public more educated,”