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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Maharashtra Moves To Promote Tour...
March 13, 2012: To reduce man-animal conflict in villages near two large wildlife reserves in Maharashtra, the State Forest Department has decided to create a

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Greens Want Ecological Stability
March 11, 2012: Even as union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee readies to present economic vision of India in 2012-13 general budget, greens have sounded a n

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'BJP Leaders, Minister Involved I...
March 13, 2012: Former minister and member of the Wildlife Board Pushpraj Singh has alleged that some BJP leaders including a few ministers of the state cabin

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Jayanthi Rewrites Jairam, ‘No-Go’...
March 13, 2012: Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh’s “go, no-go" policy to keep some areas out of bounds for mining is back — with a different name. Th

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PM Calls Ganga Meet, Tells ‘Water...
March 13, 2012: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has refused to accept the resignation of India’s “water man", Magsaysay Award-winner Rajinder Singh and has conv

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Cheers! Cubs Come To Fore
March 13, 2012: If the loss of seven tigers in the state in four months is indeed disturbing - sighting of four new cubs in the proposed Umred-Kharangla Wildl

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Carbon Project Applications Soar...
March 9, 2012: Applications for UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) carbon emitting projects soared in February, making it the second highest month for p

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Ukraine Resumes Greenhouse Gas Em...
March 10, 2012: Ukraine regained the right to participate in international trading of greenhouse gas emission quotas, which was suspended last year, the count

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The Economist On N-Power, Post Fu...
March 10, 2012: The enormous power tucked away in the atomic nucleus, the chemist Frederick Soddy rhapsodised in 1908, could “transform a desert continent, th

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Black Ivory
March 10, 2012: It iis a bad time to be an elephant, particularly in Africa. Almost 24 tonnes of illegally harvested ivory were seized by investigators in 201

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Simlipal Despair: Tigers Forced T...
March 12 2012: Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth biggest tiger reserve in the country, may soon go the Sariska way with the National Tiger Conservation Autho

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The Frog Purana
March 19, 2012: Sathyabhama Das Biju is an unearther of the earth’s forgotten stories. He sniffs out links between the genetic codes from the beginnings of li

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