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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Ulu Muda - Kedah's Neglected Eden
Fariman Salahshour unearths the magic of a little-known forest known as Ulu Muda in the Kedah state of nothern peninsular Malaysia and urges on the importance

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Fighting The Good Fight! India’s...
For almost four decades Sanctuary has been at the fulcrum of some of India’s best and least-known wildlife campaigns. Our purpose has been to inform and invol

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Sheru’s Story
Arun Fulara writes about a leopard who lives in a village up in the hills of Kumaon.

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Sanctuary Grant For Naga Hunter T...
The Sanctuary Nature Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a monetary grant worth Rs. 50,000/- from its flagship Mud on Boots Project to grassroots

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How France Exterminates Its Dolph...
From January through March an average of 6,000 dolphins are killed each year on France’s west coast by large industrial trawlers and vessels fishing in pairs

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The Cold Clutch Of Death
From his rescue diaries, Jose Louies recounts the evils of snaring, a barbaric practice that probably kills more wild animals than virtually any other hunting

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Save The Aravallis
The biodiverse Aravalli range is being degraded by rampant ‘developmental’ projects. Ask your government to protect India’s oldest mountain range.

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Nearly 6,000 Pangolins In Illegal...
On the eve of World Pangolin Day February 16, 2018, TRAFFIC revealed that at least 5,772 pangolins were found in illegal wildlife trade in India during the pe

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Sula - Sanctuary Support To ‘Mud...
With support from Sula Vineyards Pvt. Ltd., the Sanctuary Nature Foundation is pleased to announce a new Project Leader under Sanctuary’s flagship Mud on Boot

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The Life Flow Of Latha Anantha
Born in 1966, Latha Anantha passed away in 2017, far too young to die. Anitha Santhi, a Thiruvananthapuram-based environmental educator and post-graduate rese

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The Timbaktu Collective
Anirudh Nair reports on the Timbaktu Collective, a community-based NGO established in 1990, which has been working with about 21,000 marginalised families, to

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It’s A Tiger, It’s A Leopard, It’...
Even as life forms exhibit astonishing diversity on the planet, an underlying commonality underscores the art of survival. Sanctuary presents a series of im

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