Starting out as a volunteer at the grassroot level conducting surveys and creating awareness about conservation, he completed his master's in ecology and worked as a Lecturer and Head of the Department at a RYK College of Science Nashik for a year before joining the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) project in 2006.
He headed the Project "Decline of House Sparrows in the Urban Sub-Habitats of India" and worked on the report submitted to the MoEF on "Impacts of Cell Phone Towers on Wildlife and Bees".
In 2009 the Nature Forever Society was formally registered with Mohammed Dilawar as the President for the conservation of house sparrows and flora and fauna found in human habitats.
Mohammed Dilawar was named as one of the "Heroes of the Environment" in 2008 by Time magazine in their list of the 30 most influential Environmentalists in the world.
[2] The Times Now news network named him one of the Amazing Indians in their series in regard to his work on conservation of house sparrows in the country.