Sanctuary Asia

The Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s flagship Sanctuary Asia magazine founded and edited by Bittu Sahgal has been in continuous publication since 1981 and remains India's leading and best-loved magazine in its genre. Browse through select articles from our past issues.
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India’s Environment And Public He...
The U.S. space agency NASA recently published a map showing how rates of premature deaths from air pollution vary around the world. Not surprisingly, the data

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Sanctuary Cub Nature Photography...
A Sanctuary Cub Nature Photography Workshop for young people will be held by Sanctuary Asia Editor Bittu Sahgal and Dr. Parvish Pandya at Kitab Khana on Febru

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China Continues As Nexus Of Wildl...
On January 22, 2014, Debbie Banks of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) alerted Sanctuary to seizures of wildlife products by the Forest Police of Y

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Island Images Sri Lanka’s Wildlif...
The ancient Indian epic Ramayana referred to this tiny island as Lanka. Islamic folklore maintains that Adam and Eve were offered refuge on the island after t

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Tigers Lose Ground
Tiger habitat in India shrank by 12,000 square kilometers, more than three times the size of the state of Goa, in the four years ending in 2010, according to

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The Tadoba Inheritance Photograph...
Tadoba is the oldest national park in Maharashtra and is one of India’s most exciting and best Protected Areas, which was declared a Project Tiger Reserve in

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Kids For Tigers ‘Tiger Fest’ At M...
Sanctuary Asia and Aircel are holding their annual Kids For Tigers 'Tiger Fest' at the Maharashtra Nature Park on January 18, 2014. Schools from all over Mumb

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BNHS - Wetlands Day College Stude...
India is blessed with a long coastline, mighty rivers, numerous lakes, ponds, mangroves, mudflats and creeks. Thus, wetlands play a vital role in the country’

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Woodpeckers
Woodpeckers position themselves vertically on tree trunks and tap with their beaks. That is after all, how they gets their name! Did you know that they do so

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The Whitaker Boa
A non-poisonous snake, the Whitaker boa is found in the coastal parts of the southern Western Ghats and is named after the famous herpetologist Romulus Whitak

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Recognising The Rights Of Non-Hum...
Read about three victories - for the North Atlantic right whale, for chimpanzees, and for all nonhuman animals.

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Manglu Baiga - Kanha's Legendary...
It was my first trip to the Kanha Tiger Reserve in the early 1970s, and the late Bhagwan Rekwar said to me even before I entered the forest: “You are going to

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