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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MoEF: S Asian Nations Lack Resour...
July 1, 2012: At a time when poaching and illegal trade of wildlife articles have assumed alarming proportions, the Environment Ministry has conceded that the

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39 Sites In Western Ghats Get Wor...
July 3, 2012: A cluster of 39 sites spread over 7,953.15 sq km in the Western Ghats will now be inscribed in the World Heritage list. These include tiger rese

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The Melting North
June 16, 2012: Standing on the greenland ice cap, it is obvious why restless modern man so reveres wild places. Everywhere you look, ice draws the eye, squeez

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Tiger Poaching Sparks Hunger Prot...
July 2, 2012,(IANS): A wildlife campaigner alarmed at the rise in tiger poaching will begin a hunger strike in Nagpur today to seek protection for the big cat

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'Gandhigiri' To Protect Tigers In...
July 1, 2012,(IANS): Alarmed at the rise in tiger poaching,wildlife lover Bandu Dhotre will start a fast unto death in Nagpur from Monday to seek protection f

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63 Elephants Die In 2 Years In Be...
June 21,2012,(PTI ): Altogether 63 elephants died in West Bengal either naturally or by accident in a span of two years, while 139 people were killed in eleph

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Elephant Population Rises To 1930...
June 28, 2012,(PTI): Despite death of 149 elephants, mostly due to poaching and electrocution during last two years in Odisha, the population of pachyderms ha

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Seized Feathers Point To Peacock...
June 27, 2012: Forest department officials on Monday arrested three people in the city for selling peacock feathers, in an incident indicative of the ongoing

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Rio+20
Sanctuary Cover Story June 2012: World Environment Day, June 5, is doubly significant this year since Rio+20 will dominate virtually every nation’s global age

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M. Krishnan Centenary Celebration...
Dear All, 30th June 2012 is the late M. Krishnan's birth centenary. The M. Krishnan Memorial Organizing Committee has organized an exhibition of some of Kri

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Nilgiri Tahr Sighted At New Locat...
June 25, 2012: Nilgiri tahr, the endangered mountain ungulate species, was sighted recently at a new location, the Adimali forest in Idukki district.

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Nepal Launches Drones To Combat P...
June 20, 2012,(AFP): Conservationists in Nepal are to send drone aircraft into the skies in the battle to save the Himalayan nation's endangered tigers and rh

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