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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Mike Pandey
For dedicating his life to the protection of wild nature through the use of cinematography and for his courage and determination in producing films - with o

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Prosper S. Marak
Prosper is remarkably young and despite not being formally trained, his knowledge and passion for India’s wildlife has won him the reputation of a giant-kil

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Aamod Zambre
Aamod Zambre has worked in one of the most exciting places on the planet - Arunachal Pradesh’s Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary. Here conservation biologists fi

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Vishal Jayant Bhave
Vishal Jayant Bhave, just 23 years old, has managed to discover as many as 80 new Opisthobranch that were previously unknown in India. He lives to study and

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Vijay Pinjarkar And Times of Indi...
Week after week for the past three years, Vijay Pinjarkar, Special Correspondent with the Times of India, has investigated scores of environmental stories, i

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Dr. Marselin R. Almeida And Dr. (...
For four decades and more this remarkable husband and wife team have meticulously documented, studied and taught botany. Many of their students are now reno

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Mahesh Kumar Jiwrajka
Mahesh Kumar Jiwrajka has probably been more directly responsible for saving wildife habitats in India than virtually any other individual in the past few y

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Tana Tapi And Takum Nabum
Tana Tapi, Divisional Forest Officer, Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh is just such a man. He and his team work in near impenetrable forests against a

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Bibha Sonowal, Pallabita Bora, Sw...
Bibha Sonowal, Pallabita Bora, Swarnalata Bhuyan and Anita Das are courageous women forest guards of Kaziranga. Theirs is the very first team of female wild

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Ajjinanda Thamoo Poovaiah
Ajjinanda Thamoo Poovaiah is a wildlife protector, businessman, activist and conservationist. Unable to stomach the devastation that unchecked tree felling

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Dr. Ganesh Vankhede
He has been a protector of wildernesses for over three decades. As head of the post-graduate department of Zoology at the S.G.B Amravati University, he has

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Arthi Venkatesham, Bhumani Venkat...
They are living proof that change is possible. Among our nation's most celebrated tribal communities, the Chenchus were once hunter gatherers. Instead of bei

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