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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BNHS In Malaysia
May 28-June 5, 2013:WILD BORNEO, MALAYSIA: Borneo Island is also known as the Land of the Hornbills; the Borneo rainforest is the oldest in the world and is t

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World Wetlands Day Poster Competi...
February 2, 2013: This World Wetlands Day, which is celebrated on 2nd February, the Bombay Natural History Society Conservation Centre (BNHS CEC), in collabor

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Illegal Township In Corbett
December 2012: Corbett’s woes are bigger than the tourism mess in its eastern half. For 30 years, Corbett has been hosting an illegal township, defying a 1999

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Snow Leopard In Kugti Wildlife Sa...
January 2013: Presenting the first-ever evidence of the snow leopard Panthera unica in Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh, a recently-published pape

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A Win For Wild Dolphins
January 2013: A little over a year ago, Sanctuary campaigned to ‘Say No to the Dolphinarium in Maharashtra’ (Sanctuary, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, December, 2011), and

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New Beginning For Nandhour
December 2012: In a recent meeting with the Uttarakhand Forest Department, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) decided to declare 260 sq. km. of Na

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Ravi Sankaran Inlaks Fellowship P...
January 2014: The Ravi Sankaran Inlaks Foundation For Field Biology, Ecology and Conservation calls for applications to this Fellowship Programme, which provi

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The Lion’s Mane Jellyfish
January 2013: The lion’s mane jellyfish is the largest known species of jellyfish - its tentacles can reach 15 m. and its diameter is almost two metres! The d

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The Search For Silence
Do you ever have much of a chance in your busy lives, at school and with your families and friends, to think about… silence? Do you ever notice or long for si

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The Ornate Narrow-Mouthed Frog
January 2013: The Socorro Plateau in North Goa is one of my favourite spots for watching wildlife. In the dry season, I conduct birding trips here all the tim

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Festival Schedule
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Standing Up For The Environment
January 20, 2013: Al Gore brought you the inconvenient truth about the state of the world. Now, stand up comic Anuvab Pal, along-with Aditi Mittal, presents ‘

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