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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Felling Kalapat’s Forests: The La...
The pachyderms of Odisha continue to face habitat loss as the state gears up to fell trees in Kalapat Forest Reserve. The reserve, spread over 220 sq. km., fa

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The Invention Of Nature: The Adve...
Sanctuary's Assistant Editor Purva Variyar reviews Andrea Wulf’s award-winning book The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt - The Lo

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The Hidden Life Of Trees - What T...
Sanctuary's Assistant Editor Purva Variyar reviews Peter Wohlleben's book The Hidden Life of Trees.

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Islands In Flux - The Andaman And...
Sanctuary'sAnadya Singh reviews Pankaj Sekhsaria’s book Islands in Flux - The Andaman and Nicobar Story.

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Major Online Retailers Caught Up...
A team of investigators and scientists from India and the UK have uncovered a major international fraud - monitor lizard hemipenis (male sexual organs) is bei

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DNA For Conservation
Conservation is an unbelievably vast and a rather deep science. How deep? All the way to the molecular level! And to understand the implications of studying t

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Nature’s Business: Leadership Les...
Sanctuary web columnist and Biomimicry Communicator Anjan Prakash shares leadership lessons from the greatest teacher of them all - Nature.

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Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Wo...

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Hatching Hope: 39 Critically Enda...
In a boost to the critically endangered species, 39 Burmese-roofed turtles have hatched in Limpha Village , Myanmar, report scientists from WCS (Wildlife Cons

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Nova Nature Welfare Society
The Raipur-based Nova Nature Welfare Society works with the Chhattisgarh Forest Department to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife, conduct awareness workshops an

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In The Jungles Of The Night
Anirudh Nair reviews In the Jungles of the Night by Stephen Alter.

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Run Rhino Run
Ten thousand years ago, the woolly rhino walked alongside the woolly mammoth. Vivek Menon ruminates on the evolution of these horned behemoths, and what lies

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