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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The Sanctuary Panna Wilderness Fo...
The Panna landscape broadly overlaps with the Panna Biosphere Reserve. It includes, three Protected Areas; Panna national park, Gangau wildlife sanctuary and

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A River Dolphin’s Ear-View Of Ind...
Our national inland waterways ambitions spell doom for the endangered Gangetic river dolphin unless better sense prevails and vital mitigation measures are ta

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Oceans - The Good, The Bad And Th...
Globalised industrial fishing is taking a vicious toll on the world’s oceans. We need to collectively rethink our attitudes towards the food we eat, suggests

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Bohemian Waxwing Spotted In India...
Himachal Pradesh birder spots Bohemian Waxwing after a century-long absence from records in the country.

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Raising Sheep In A Protected Area
Shifting the state-owned sheep-breeding farm out of Kashmir’s Dachigam National Park is a critical priority, if the last-remaining population of the endangere

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Nature And Nation
Sanctuary's Assistant Editor Anirudh Nair reviews Mahesh Rangarajan’s Nature and Nation.

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Spell Of The Tiger - The Man-Eate...
Sanctuary's Assistant Editor Purva Variyar reviews Sy Montgomery’s Spell of the Tiger - The Man-eaters of Sundarbans.

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Sustaining Environment And Wildli...
In and around Maharashtra’s Gondia district, an NGO called SEWA (Sustaining Environment and Wildlife Assemblage) is helping regenerate tiger habitats, and pro

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Environment Ministry Seeks Review...
The environment ministry files a petition seeking a review of NGT’s order quashing the clearance of Mirzapur thermal power plant.

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Bleeding Orangutans
Though we share 97 per cent of our DNA with the imperiled species, we are nowhere like them. Today, orangutans have only humans to blame for having just a dec

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Black Baza: Where Biodiversity-Fr...
Arshiya Bose, founder of Black Baza Coffee Co., gives us a glimpse into India’s chequered coffee-growing history, introduces her fledgling business and explai

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Ennore Oil Spill Spreads Across C...
The oil spill near Ennore Port that took place when two cargo ships collided on 28 January 2017,has spread across the Chennai coast. An application that was f

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