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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K.M. Chinnappa
Name is synonymous with wildlife conservation in Karnataka. For over 30 years, he has worked to defend the forests and wildlife of the state. In the 1970s a

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Manglu Baiga
The fact that he knows Kanha and its topography like the back of his hand makes him crucial to the park's anti-poaching, fire fighting and monitoring effort

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Niren Jain
A graduate of architecture and a native of Bajagoli, a village located near the Kudremukh National Park, Niren has been actively involved in conservation ef

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Pankaj Sharma
Thanks to his bravery, and that of his colleagues, the number of rhinos poached fell from 25 in 1992 to six in 1996. Sharma was personally involved in seven

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Charudutt Mishra And Aparajita Du...
Charudutt is currently working to establish the first high-altitude wildlife reserve in Tawang and West Kameng. Aparajita runs a conservation programme in N

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Ratan Singh
A villager who lives around the park, he helps improve relations between villagers and the forest department. He believes that the national park is the heri

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Sonam Wangchuk
Sonam Wangchuk has also designed the SECMOL campus, which runs on solar energy and uses no fossil fuels for cooking, lighting or heating, even when temperat

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Maan Barua
He is writing two books on the birds of Kaziranga and Assam. Maan also works with young persons to promote tourism that is sensitive to wildlife and to deve

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Rahul Alvares
In 2002, he travelled to Thailand to learn how to handle king cobras. He now rescues snakes from human habitations. These incidents resulted in a second boo

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Aaron Savio Lobo
He has worked on the ecology of the dog-faced water snake in the Sálim Ali Bird Sanctuary, Goa. He will soon be starting work in the Gulf of Mannar, studyin

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Indrapratap Thakare
He has worked on surveys of the submergence zone of the proposed Upper Tapi Stage II dam in Melghat and the Human dam that threatens the Tadoba Tiger Reserv

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Dr. A.J.T. Johnsingh
He has now retired after two decades spent with the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, an institution he helped shape. One of his key contributions to c

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