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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MoEF Bats For Cumulative Environm...
May 3, 2011: Ministry to set up Centre for Wetland Studies in Orissa.  Concerned about the danger posed to the environment by highly polluting industries in s

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Jairam-MP Minister Standoff On Ri...
May 2, 2011: Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh recently took the stand that the Ken-Betwa river linking project should be abandoned as

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Ban On Endosulfan: Environment Mi...
May 2, 2011, (PTI): Rejecting suggestions that Government was against a ban on Endosulfan , Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the country could ph

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CPI Accuses Ramesh Of Sacrificing...
May 2, 2011, (PTI): The CPI today accused Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh of sacrificing the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 in order to safeguard the

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‘Harmful Practices Being Carried...
May 1, 2011, (PTI): A member of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has drawn the Environment Ministry’s attention to harmful practices like building of rest h

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Posco Project May Have Cleared La...
May 2, 2011:  The Orissa government may have managed to remove the final impediment for diversion of 1,253 hectares forest to South Korean steel major Posco f

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Bleeding The Forests Will Not Pro...
May 1, 2011: Revolutions invariably liberate. Living up to the prototype, Union minister Jairam Ramesh claims to have launched a revolution to “liberate bambo

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Impact Of Ports To Be Audited: Ja...
May 1, 2011: Port owners are supposed to be responsible for sand bypassing. But very few ports, if any are doing this.

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Ramesh Seeks Archaeological Surve...
May 1, 2011, (IANS): Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has urged Gujarat to undertake a thorough archaeological survey of the Girnar reserv

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Madhya Pradesh Minister Bans 'Non...
April 30, 2011: The Madhya Pradesh government has banned genetically modified (GM) seeds in the state with agriculture minister Ramkrishna Kusmariya saying th

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Govt Relaxes Forest Rule For Infr...
April 29, 2011: Making further concessions for creating public infrastructure in Naxalite areas, the government on Thursday ordered that projects like buildin

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India Yet To Decide On Bt Brinjal
April 29, 2011: India remained undecided over commercial release of Genetically Modified Bt Brinjal as a high level committee in this regard failed to make a

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