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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Ganga Brings Uma To Sonia
June 26, 2011: The Ganga issue has brought firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharti closer to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. She called on Mrs Gandhi on Saturday at her

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Green Nod To Hydro Project Clears...
June 27, 2011: The environment ministry has approved a $920 million (Rs.4,131 crore) hydropower project in Uttarakhand on stricter conditions, clearing the wa

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Breaking News As It Happens
June 26, 2011: Renowned social worker Vikas Amte and several others had campaigned for prohibition in Chandrapur district. Bowing to pressure, the state gover

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Sariska To Get 3 More Tigresses
June 27, 2011: The Sariska tiger reserve will soon host atleast three more tigeress from Ranthambore. Currently, the reserve has two tigers and three tigeress

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Jairam's Note: PM Seeks Clarifica...
June 25, 2011: Prime Minister's Office has sought clarification from the coal and power ministries on environment minister Jairam Ramesh's note blaming the tw

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"Status Of Indian Birds And Their...
Introduction: India is a mega-biodiversity country sheltering more than 1200 species of birds. The country harbors habitat for a large number of endemic and e

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Forum Takes Up Cause Of Rivers, V...
June 25, 2011: The Pampa Parirakshana Samiti has called upon the government to formulate an ‘integrated water source development plan' for conservation of Vem

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Delhi Zoo May Shift Its Three Ele...
June 26, 2011: More than a year after the idea was first mooted to whether shift the three elephants from the National Zoological Park to the wild or not, the

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MoEF Gives Green Nod To Three Coa...
June 26, 2011: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has given his approval to open up Tara, Parsa East and Kante Basan coal-blocks in the Hasdeo-Arand forest re

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‘We Treat Just A Third Of The Sew...
June 26, 2011:The government has set itself an ambitious target of delivering a clean and free-flowing Ganga by 2020. Union minister of environment and forest

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Contradictory Reports On Ganga Pr...
June 25, 2011: In a repeat of the Posco inquiry, a committee looking into issues raised by Uma Bharti to save Dhara Devi temple in Uttarakhand has submitted f

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Sariska Tiger Gets A New Fan
June 26, 2011: The much maligned Sariska Tiger Reserve near Alwar in Rajasthan has got a new fan in Union Minister Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ram

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