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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Climate Change Endangering Asia’s...
August 2000: Human-induced climate change is the most serious problem facing the world in the 21st century. The increasing amounts of oil, coal and other foss

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Fiddling While India Burns
Bittu Sahgal suggests that climate change is taking a toll on wild species and ecosystems and that India is making a huge strategic error by pushing forward w

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Climate Swings - January? Or Is T...
I have been intrigued by the idea of snow since I was a child. Most of us who grew up in warm climes look at incredible mountain scenes washed in white and ma

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The Nero Factor: India Has A Choi...
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus - or Nero, as he was better known - did not really ‘fiddle’ while the Great Fire raged across

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What Happened At The Bali Convent...
The following Sanctuary report on the proceedings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),held in Bali, Indonesia in early Decem

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Steel Plant Proposal Turned Down...
December 20, 2012: An application to set up a six million tonne a year integrated steel plant on 4,000 acres of land in the Bellary district of Karnataka, nea

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We Hoped For A Female Offspring!
December 20, 2012: 10-year-old Asha, the only female wild buffalo in the Udanti Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagpur has given birth to a male calf for the fourth tim

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Churning the Earth: The Making of...
October 2012: Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari have put together a critique of an extremely flawed economic developmental model that has been driven by po

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Corporation 2020 - Transforming B...
December 2012:Reviewed by Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Asia: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

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The Secrets Of Wild Assam
December 2012:Reviewed by Ayesha Bapasola, Editorial Assistant, Sanctuary Asia:  Anwaruddin Choudhury’s most recent publication, The Secrets of Wild Assam, ni

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Nhava & Sheva - Battling For The...
December 2012:Reviewed by Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Asia:  Shyam Chainani was my friend. He was also one of those who taught me how to fight battles eff

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Stop The Massacre Of The Amur Fal...
December 2012: The brutal massacre of the Amur Falcon in regions of Northeast India has long been suspected by Conservation India - a recent survey at the Doy

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