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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Rhapsody Revisited: The Western G...
For a region attuned to the sounds of forest streams, deafening cicadas and the meandering tunes of Malabar Whistling Thrushes, much less the sounds of mining

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Amreli’s Lions Distressed By Firi...
April 2013: In February and March every year, Gujarat’s Amreli district police conducts firing practice in Khambha town, barely half a kilometre away from the

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Nearly One In Five Reptiles Face...
April 2013: A study conducted by a team of 200 experts for the Zoological Society of London, in conjunction with the IUCN Species Survival Commission, indicat

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Corals Found At Great Depths On T...
April 2013: A team from the Catlin Seaview Survey has discovered, with the help of a remote-operated submersible, that the Great Barrier Reef houses corals at

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Subsidising Whaling
April 2013: A report compiled by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts has accused the Japanese government of supporting

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History Repeating Itself?
April 2013: Grey wolves were taken off the list of U.S. Endangered Species in 2011 by a legislative rider, after being protected for more than three decades.

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Rachel Louise Carson: May 27, 190...
My hero came alive 20 years after she died. I sat spellbound. Rachael Carson was speaking out her closest thoughts to me, her voice floating out of the dark,

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Meet Robert D. Hormats, U.S. Unde...
Shubhobroto Ghosh, Senior Programme Officer, TRAFFIC India, interviewed U.S. Under Secretary of State, Robert Hormats, following his participation in the Ille

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Sounds Of Silence - Silent Valley...
Try as I might, I could not see the elephants. I had a great vantage point on the upper-most level of the tall Sairandhri watch tower. I could hear the elepha

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Wild Maharashtra
Anyone who has visited Maharashtra will agree that this is a land of stunning beauty and diversity. The state has mountains that rise out of the Arabian Sea;

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Climate-Threatened
All living species, including this Great Crested Tern Sterna bergii chick, are plucky survivors of a series of relentless life-or-death ‘trials of life’. Prot

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Palpur Kuno To Finally Get Lions!
April 2013: In a blow to the stand taken by the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled in favour of translocating a small prid

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