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.
Magazine Thumbnail
Meet The Judges Of The Sanctuary...
November 2012: The Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards were instituted to showcase the contributions of India’s best wildlife photographers. Our judges had

Magazine Thumbnail
Special Interview With Valmik Tha...
Tiger defender all his life. Author. Filmmaker. Naturalist. Fighter. Television presenter. He has been all these and more. Having lived several lifetimes in o

Magazine Thumbnail
Conservation Is For The Birds
Artist, naturalist and photographer, Vishwajeet Naik is all these things and more. But above all, writes Bittu Sahgal, he is passionate about birds, an involv

Magazine Thumbnail
The Way Forward
Praveen Pardeshi, Principal Secretary, Forests, Government of Maharashtra, has been one of the architects of wildlife conservation in this proud state for dec

Magazine Thumbnail
Protecting Antarctica’s Marine Ha...
November 8, 2012: Members of the Antarctic Ocean Alliance, which include NGOs such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund have been urging the U.K governme

Magazine Thumbnail
Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Aw...

Magazine Thumbnail
New Grounds For Solar Power In In...
November 8, 2012: A study by two professors at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has overturned the long-standing argument that solar power is not indust

Magazine Thumbnail
Rice No Good For Global Warming
November 8, 2012: In a study led by Jan van Groenigen, Research Fellow at the Botany Department at the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, re

Magazine Thumbnail
Sandy And Climate Change
November 8, 2012: Despite the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Sandy across the eastern coast of the U.S.A., there was little mention of climate change. None of the

Magazine Thumbnail
India’s Leopards In A Spot Of Tro...
October 31, 2012: According to a recent study by TRAFFIC India, titled ‘Illuminating the Blind Spot: A study on illegal trade in leopard parts in India’, at l

Magazine Thumbnail
NIB Spells Trouble For India’s Bi...
October 30, 2012: The process of environmental clearances in India is already enough of a sham, with development projects snapping at the heels of every last

Magazine Thumbnail
Wild Maharashtra
As the many-hued pages of Sanctuary’s newest large-format book come to life, one is reminded of the words of Albert Einstein: Look deep into nature, and you w

What is this planet but a Sanctuary for all life?
Help protect our wilds.