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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Look Again!
An incredibly diverse group of animals learned to glide independent of each other. This includes reptiles such as the draco lizard, an agamid that is so we

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The Fight For Flamingos
Spread over 7506 sq. km., the ‘Flamingo City’ in Kutch, the largest flamingo breeding ground in Asia, faces grave threat from a proposed road construction pro

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Change Makers - The Sanctuary Wil...
In the doom and gloom scenario of India’s wildlife conservation and climate change canvas, some human beings stand out, not merely because their values are

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Meet Cara Tejpal
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Age considers, youth ventures" - a line that is exemplified in the actions and contributions of Cara Tejpal. Still only in her

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Flights Of Fancy
Saturated with water and pulsating with life, a living wetland is a joy to behold. When traversing India’s most popular tiger reserves, trekking the high Hima

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Stuck With Humans
When I launched Sanctuary in 1981, a quiet wildlife man, S.P. Shahi, Chief Wildlife Warden of Bihar, said to me: “While our focus is on the tiger, we might so

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The Strange Obsession Of Jadav Pa...
In 1979, Jadav Payeng, a.k.a. Mulai, a cowherd, started planting trees on a desolate, barren island formed by the ever-shifting sands of the Brahmaputra river

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The Sanctuary Wildlife Awards Kic...
November 29, 2012: A fearless woman who has gone undercover to take on poachers, a cowherd who reforested an island, a boy who helped a tiger landscape come t

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BNHS Capacity Development Worksho...
December 6-8, 2012: The latest installment of the year-long, countrywide Management Training Workshops for Environmental NGOs conducted by the Bombay Natural

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Rolex Awards For Enterprise Cerem...
November 26-27, 2012: For more than 35 years Rolex has honoured extraordinary individuals who possess the courage and conviction to take on major challenges.

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First-Of-Its-Kind Marine Species...
November 26, 2012: In a massive collaborative undertaking by experts and researchers around the world,  the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has been

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