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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The Holy Trail Of Grandalas
Ram Gopalakrishnan chronicles his search for the high-altitude dwelling grandala in the little mountain town of Tawang, tucked away in the northwestern corner

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Another Unnatural Elephant Death...
A wild elephant died in Pori village of Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district after consuming pesticide-laden crops from a field. The body of the young bull elephan

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Suspected Poachers Caught In Kazi...
On September 21, 2017, Range Officers of Northern Range of Kaziranga National Park apprehended two persons suspected to be poachers and took them into custody

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Preservation Play: Children Give...
Anoko Mega, Sanctuary’s Mud On Boots Project Leader in Arunachal Pradesh, is encouraging school children of Roing to voluntarily surrender their catapults, us

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IUCN Changes The Snow Leopard's R...
The mysterious snow leopard has been delivered a piece of good news. The Red List classification from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN

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222 Wild Animal Deaths Recorded O...
A study conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) revealed a staggering 222 wildlife deaths, recorded along a 30 km. stretch of National Highway-74 b

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Tragic End To T.N. Elephant Rescu...
An injured female elephant, marooned in the Sigurhalla river in the Singara range, Nilgiris North Division, was rescued by the Forest Department on the mornin

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Global Snow Leopard Summit Held I...
The two-day International Snow Leopard Summit and Ecosystem Forum held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan concluded on August 25, 2017 with the 12 snow leopard range coun

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Cleanliness Drive Organised At Ma...
On 4 September 2017, the Srinagar-based Wildlife Conservation Fund (WCF) organised a cleanliness drive in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife Protec

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Reforestation Drives In Jhum-Impa...
Between May and July 2017, Sanctuary’s Mud on Boots Project Leaders Tsuseki and Limthure Yimchunger conducted three reforestation drives on tracts of land tha

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Conservation Photography
We were all born wild animals, which is why we respond viscerally to raw nature. Our urbanised existences may have greatly diminished our opportunities to con

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Kohka Foundation
The Kohka Foundation empowers tribal communities living in and around the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, writes Anirudh Nair.

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