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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An Alternative Lifestyle - The Pa...
Bhavna Menon shares nuggets of traditional wisdom narrated to her by members of the Pardhi community in central India.

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Wildlife Photography Awards 2018

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Endangered Medicinal Herb Exploit...
Sanctuary’s Mud On Boots Project Leader Anoko Mega, reports illegal extraction and trading of a medicinal herb from protected areas in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Dodging Death Threats And Destruc...
India is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmentalists and wildlife defenders. Statistics prove that. But do we really need statist

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Worthy Of Worship
Heaven knows all of us need happy stories… and we have one right here on this page. 

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What A Wonderful World!
How stunning is this? One of Mumbai’s inveterate naturalists, Yogesh Chavan, found 42 (count them!) exquisitely arranged salmon Arab butterfly caterpillars on

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Hunger Games
Time loses all meaning when I am in wild places, urban or rural. That chippy sound I’m hearing right now outside our ground-floor Mumbai home? It’s a Purple S

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Project Leaders To Tackle Human-W...
Two young women from a village in Karnataka’s Hunsur taluk have been selected as Project Leaders under the Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s flagship Mud on Boots

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WildRoots
Engaging artists and leveraging their talent for nature conservation is the purpose of Assam-based organisation WildRoots, writes Anirudh Nair.

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Amla And Friends - An Unlikely In...
Soumya Prasad shares fascinating insights about langur-chital interaction in amla seed dispersal in a riveting essay.

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Attack On India’s Coastline
India’s 7,000 sq. km. coastline is critical to the survival of all those who live within our borders, irrespective of how far they live from the coast. The bi

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Meet Entomologist, Ecopreneur And...
After working for more than two decades at one of the oldest conservation and research organisations in the country, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNH

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