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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Sarus, Gangetic Dolphin Are Facin...
September 29, 2011: Out of the total number of 10,000 Grus Antigone Indian Sarus in the country, nearly 2,500 are said to be nesting in and around Etawah and

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Guards Leave Assam Parks - Homegu...
September 28, 2011: Security at the national parks in Assam has come under threat with a large number of homeguards and casual workers engaged there leaving t

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India & Pakistan on the Ecologica...
Sanctuary Cover Story October 2011:In a 2008 paper, former Union cabinet minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, opined that India's energy security could not be ad

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CBI Probe Demanded To Crack Poach...
October 4, 2011: Even as wildlife week is being celebrated amid fanfare, Prayatna, an environmental action group from Bhopal, has demanded a CBI probe into mi

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BNHS Bhimashankar Camp - October...
The rains are just over and forests are lush green and alive with life everywhere! An evergreen forest such as Bhimashankar dons an added charm in this season.

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Valmik Thapar Remembers: Thirty-F...
How do you begin to introduce the best 35 years of your life? All I know is that since early 1976, my life has been completely entangled with tigers. And it h

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Sutlej: A River Returns
October 2011: It was an amazing sight for me as I reached Kasur District on the Indo-Pak border in late August. After Indo-Pak border in late August. Af

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Siachen Resolution
October 2011: Five years ago I wrote an article in these pages (Sanctuary Vol. XXV No. 1, February 2005) after a visit to Mumbai, suggesting a way for India a

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India For 'Global Consensus' On E...
October 3, 2011: The Economic Times: NEW DELHI: India today called for a "global consensus" on a sustainable environment policy while allowing policy space to

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Allow Policy Space To Define Sust...
October 3, 2011: Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan appealed to allow policy space for the countries to define their sustainable development strategies as per their nati

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The Hidden Message of Dussehra

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Meet Kumi Naidoo, ED, Greenpeace...
October 2011: Kumi Naidoo has fought for environmental and social justice virtually all his life. When he was just 15, he joined the anti-apartheid movement i

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