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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Urbanisation and Development
In the early 1900s one tenth of the world's population were urban dwellers. By 2006, it is estimated that half the world will be living in cities. Cities cons

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Wildlife Trade
 The Indian cheetah and pink-headed duck are gone forever. At least 10 billion dollars worth of resources are exploited from India's natural wealth each year.

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Research abstracts
Sea turtles along the Gujarat coast S.F. Wesley Sunderraj, Justus Joshua, Sesh Serebiah Gujarat has the longest coastline in the country, covering more than 160

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Brood parasitism by Indian Hawk-c...
G. Prasad, P.O. Nameer and M.V. Reshmi The Indian Hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx varius was found to be a brood parasite on Pale-capped Babbler Turdoides affinis (J

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Breeding ecology and conservation...
Otto Pfister The rare Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis, the least known of all the crane species, breeds in a limited number in the sparse wetlands of the

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Studies on microlevel wind energy...
S.H. Pawar, P.S. Arage, P.M. Shirage, D.D. Shivagan, L.A. Ekal The origin of wind energy is associated with solar energy incident on an area and the absorpti

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Behavioural characterisation of e...
Juliet Vanitharani Ectoparasites on bats compromise well with the host by extracting sufficient nourishment to maintain and propogate themselves. But they do

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Foraging behaviour of Carpenter b...
Alluri Jacob Solomon Raju and C. Subba Reddi Carpenter bees, or species of Xylocopa, are prominent members of the Indian bee fauna. They are found throughout

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Habitat preferences and distribut...
K.Yoganand and Priya Davidar The habitat preferences of 30 species of forest birds were studied in Baratang Island in the Andamans, India. The relationship b

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Livestock depredation by wolves i...
Satish Kumar and Asad R.Rahmani Food habits of the Indian wolf Canis lupis pallipes were studied in the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary, Nannaj between 1991-1

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Scent-marking behaviour of Indian...
G.R.Jakher and Sumit Dookia Scent marking patterns followed by different herds of Indian Gazelle Gazella bennetti in semi-arid region of Rajasthan were inves

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Status of Flora in Protected Area...
R.B.S. Kushwah and V. Kumar A multipurpose integrated project was taken up for (i) assessing the status of flora and fauna, (ii) computing the economic indicat

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