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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Orissa Govt Claims Fake Villagers...
April 20, 2011: The Orissa government has disputed claims of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti that the Palli Sabha (panchayats) of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, wh

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Experts Welcome The Move On Triba...
April 19, 2011, (PTI): Experts in the Bamboo industry have welcomed the initiative of Forests and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on ending monopoly of the

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New Norms For Man-Leopard Conflic...
April 19, 2011: The Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has issued guidelines to states as a first step in dealing with complex

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Prodded By Ramesh, Maharashtra Cr...
April 20, 2011: Rapped by minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, the state government has finally fall in line for the first time to remove stagn

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Sena Playing Politics Over Jaitap...
April 20, 2011: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday accused the Shiv Sena of politicising the Jaitapur nuclear plant issue and frequently chan

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Guidelines For Human-Leopard Conf...
April 18, 2011: Man-leopard confl icts have been hitting the headlines regularly in different States. I have been consulting various experts on what should be

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An Amazing Speech
Apri 19, 2011: Dear friends, An extraordinary event took place in Washington, D.C. this past weekend.   Over 10,000 young people came together for Power Shi

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Orissa Gov Accuses Anti-Posco Pro...
April 17, 2011: Amidst allegations and counter-allegations, the Orissa government has accused anti-POSCO activists of forging documents to claim rights over t

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CSE Welcomes Freeing Up Bamboo Fr...
April 18, 2011: Sunita Narain, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, has congratulated Jairam Ramesh for taking Bamboo off the ‘timber list’ and

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Tiger Panel Office To Come Up In...
April 18, 2011: An office of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) would come up in Nagpur, considered as the "tiger gateway of the country."

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Dhoni Sets Right Jharkhand, Uttar...
April 18, 2011: Yet another cricketer is set to join the cause for protecting Indian tigers but not without a controversy. Ice-cool Indian cricket captain MS

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Bamboo Gets Farmer-Friendly
April 19, 2011: The reclassification of bamboo as a grass from a tree by the central government has opened up vistas for its commercial use.

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