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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To Paint And Bloom
Bikram Grewal, birdman and keen collector of natural history art, chats with accomplished botanical illustrator Hemlata Pradhan. The founder trustee of the

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War Of The Worlds
The handsome bezoar ibex Capra aegagrus aegagrus is the wild ancestor of the domestic goat that has helped sustain pastoral communities across the globe for

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Duleep Matthai
Arjun Matthai scripts a moving eulogy to his father, Duleep Matthai, an early champion of India’s environmental movement.

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Frozen!
What does it take to survive, even thrive, in tough, icy mountainous terrain? Equally tough and unique evolutionary adaptations. An unforgiving climate, hy

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Conservation, Interrupted?
Chandni Gurusrikar stands strong in support of the Cauvery Forest Department as she delineates the circumstances of the shootout that took place between fores

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Round 2: Tiger Temple Takedown
Sanctuary Nature Foundation is reviving the #TigerTempleTakedown, a campaign developed to build awareness on the neglect, abuse and illegal trade of tigers at

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A Planet Worth Defending
By radically altering our natural ecosystems and even the climate, we are pushing species after species to the very brink. In our insatiable greed - for pow

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Nocturnal, Arboreal And Vunerable...
Swapna Nelaballi spent months studying slow lorises in the forests of Tripura. Sheintroduces Sanctuary readers to these endearing, elusive primates, threatene

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Tarbar - A Fence To Block A Centu...
A 20 km.-long fence erected by the Nepal government has exacerbated human-elephant conflict in West Bengal. Avijan Saha explains.

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Purse Seines And Migrant Labour -...
As our oceans are filled with plastic and emptied of marine life, and climate change moves into higher gear, it becomes ever more vital that the contentious i

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Scientists Develop New Method To...
A new methodology developed by the Indian Statistical Institute, and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) may revolutionise the method of counting tigers and o

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Sheep Farm To Move Out Of Dachiga...
A Sanctuary Asia Report, March 23, 2017 The Government of Jammu & Kashmir has now ordered its Department of Animal and Sheep Husbandry's controversial Sheep

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