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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Keya Sarkar: Dealing With Dead Wo...
April 16, 2011: As Jairam Ramesh fights to save our forests, he can be rest assured that his colleagues in the forest department are fighting to save each tre

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Eco-Friendly Builders Get Sop Fro...
April 16, 2011: In a fillip to eco-friendly development, builders will no longer have to get the mandatory Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study for resid

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Jairam Sends Prithvi’s Coastal Ro...
April 16, 2011: Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan was left red-faced when his ambitious proposal to build coastal roads in south Mumbai was thumbed down by his

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Nagpur To Be Promoted As Tiger Ca...
April 16, 2011: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Friday complimented Maharashtra on the increase in tiger population in th

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Ramesh Lifts Sand-Mining Ban In R...
April 16, 2011: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has lifted the ban on sand mining in the ecologically fragile Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri di

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Jairam Ramesh's Letter On POSCO S...
April 15, 2011, (PTI): Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik today said environment minister Jairam Ramesh's letter to the state putting on hold the forest cle

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No Rethink On Jaitapur Project, S...
April 16 2011: Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said on Friday that there would be no rethink on the environmental clearance given to

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Activist Vandana Siva Puts Pawar...
April 18, 2011: Environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva has said that the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s refusal to ban Endosulfan points to the c

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NPC Confident Of Safety At Multip...
April 18, 2011: Seeking to allay fears about safety at nuclear plants with multiple reactors, state-run Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) said the design adopte

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MSRDC Presentation Proves Fatal F...
April 17, 2011: While the officials of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRDC) have been claiming that the coastal road will cost much less as co

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Uddhav Slams Jairam Over 'U-Turn'...
April 17, 2011: Reacting to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's statement that there would be no rethink on Jaitapur nuclear power project, Shiv Sena E

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MoEF Lifts Ban On Sand Mining Bui...
April 18, 2011, (PTI): The Builders Association of India (BAI) has welcomed the decision of the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to lift the ban on sa

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