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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Press Release: "Land Grabs" In Ag...
July 26, 2011:Washington, D.C. - The trend of international land grabbing - when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in o

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Man hugs leopard to save it from...

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Madayipara: The land of flowers.

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Experts Question "Independence" O...
July 30, 2011: Independent tiger experts have questioned the management evaluation process of tiger reserves, in which 40% of the reserves were found to be in

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Centre's Lens On Sunderbans
July 30, 2011: Unesco had sounded the alert on the management of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve 14 years back - the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) follo

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Two New Species Of Spiders Discov...
July 30, 2011: How many different varieties of spiders do you think exist? The number is really large. According to the experts from the Sant Gadge Baba Amrav

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Kolkata Confidential
August 1, 2011: Doesn’t fit the bill Union minister Jairam Ramesh’s meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was a bit unconventional one, for it was held

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Climate Change And The Plight Of...
July 27, 2011: For centuries, the whitebark pine, Pinus albicaulis, has grown on hundreds of thousands of acres across the West. It is a keystone species of a

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Management Effectiveness Evaluati...
July 22, 2011: Foreword - The Management Effectives Evaluation (MEE) process is a global framework to evaluate the performance of protected areas. I am happy

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Monsoon Wedding
June 2006:With the onset of the monsoon and the sound of falling rain… the Indian subcontinent comes alive to the croaks, clicks and reverberating calls of fr

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Mountain Princes - Frog Tales Fro...
December 2007: I was on the top of the Chinnapul Mountain in the rainforests of the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) with two of my Kani friends on a

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And Then There Were None… - The F...
February 2010:“Frogs, so common in these humid forests, are crucial links in the ecology. If they disappear, all kinds of food chains will be broken and the e

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