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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Two New Business Bills Address Cl...
June 27, 2011: Two bills related to climate change that have been flagged by business interests are scheduled to go before lawmakers on Monday.

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Climate Policies 'Need New Tools'...
June 30, 2011: The UK's greenhouse gas emissions are not falling fast enough to meet government targets, say advisers. Emissions rose by 3% during 2010, says

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Climate Sceptic Willie Soon Recei...
June 28, 2011: One of the world's most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past

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Why Bangladesh Doesn't Want Clima...
June 30, 2011: This week in Cape Town, the World Bank will decide whether to approve new climate adaptation loans for five countries. In Bangladesh and around

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Water Shortages Threaten Renewabl...
June 27, 2011: The development of new renewable energy technologies and other expanding sources of energy such as shale gas will be limited by the availabilit

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Nature Is Not Just About Living T...
June 16, 2011: George Monbiot is of course correct to draw attention to many of the problems in trying to put a financial value on nature (The true value of n

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UK Must Not Support World Bank's...
June 29, 2011: Britain should not channel aid through the World Bank until it stops lending money to developing countries to build "dirty" power stations, a p

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Nicolas Sarkozy Makes €1bn Commit...
June 27, 2011: The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has bucked the anti-nuclear trend following Japan's Fukushima disaster by pledging €1bn of investment in

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Ecuador Looks To Its Own People I...
September 22, 2010: We left thirsty Peru and have reached Quito in Ecuador on the great Oxfam/Guardian Andean climate journey. First stop is to meet the gover

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Bandra Worli Sea Link: An Environ...
June 30, 2011: The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, which was many years in the making, finally became a reality on June 30, 2009. Despite the delay, it firmly got entr

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If The Snake Birds Had A Vote...
July 1, 2011: Everybody loves a 5,000-year-old lake. So it goes with Vembanad, where Paul McCartney recently chose to holiday incognito and serenade the night

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Chhattisgarh Asked To Propose Tig...
June 30, 2011,(PTI): The Centre has asked Chhattisgarh government to submit a proposal to National Tiger Conservation Authority to declare Guru Ghasidas Natio

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