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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Wildlife Photography Exhibition I...
Sanctuary Asia, India's leading wildlife magazine, has been organising photography exhibitions of the finest images selected from its extensive photolibrary f

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Nature Answers Man: Those Who Arg...
By Harvey Locke In June of this year, a massive rainstorm hammered the vast limestone basins of the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The dynamic combina

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Skin Deep - Judging Nature’s Book...
The cells that together comprise the surface of living things perform a variety of functions, all critical to survival. Quite apart from being, literally, t

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Nature Needs Half: A Necessary An...
By Harvey LockeABSTRACT Conservation targets should be based on what is necessary to protect nature in all its expressions. When in 1988 the Brundtland repor

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Endangered!
“To feel no surprise at the rarity of a species, and yet to marvel greatly when the species ceases to exist, is much the same as to feel no surprise at sick

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Another Rhino Shot Down In Kazira...
Poachers have killed another one-horned rhino in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park. By some accounts, this brings the number of rhinos shot in Kaziranga to 25 t

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Epic Flooding In Colorado Attribu...
The extraordinary flooding in Colorado is the latest in a long series of climate change-related extreme weather events across the world. For three days late l

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International Climate Activist Bi...
More and more people around the world understand that protecting tiger forests and fighting climate change are not just overlapping struggles, they are the SA

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Water Scarcity May Limit Gas Frac...
New Delhi has been giving strong consideration to “tapping" its supply of shale gas in response to the country’s growing energy demand, but may be hampered by

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Death Is Life!
The mould on your bread and the whitish growth you see on damp leather are both fungi. When talking of biodiversity, fungi hardly find mention, but the fact

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The Wildlife Conservation And Dev...
The Wildlife Conservation and Development Centre (WLCDC) is an Umred-based NGO that was founded in 2009 by Roheet Karoo, the Honorary Wildlife Warden, with th

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The Sanctuary Voices Of Reason Se...
Homo sapiens is in a bind. Homo sapiens post-industrialis is sometimes a little concerned about the mess he has made of the planet, but would like to clean

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