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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Odd, Different, But Not Peculiar!
April 2011: Strange looking sambar? For a micro-moment that’s what I thought too… until I noticed the horns and body shape; at which point I did a double take

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Bangladesh Communities Show How T...
April 5, 2011: While the world warms and negotiators representing nearly 200 governments gather this week in flood-stricken Thailand to argue over what to do

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Bangkok Climate Talks Stall
April 8, 2011: The deep divisions apparently bridged by last December's climate deal in Cancún were reopened this week at UN talks in Bangkok, undermining the

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El Alto, City Of Rural Migrants W...
April 12, 2011: Poor El Alto is the satellite city of rich La Paz, overlooking the capital of Bolivia from up in the altiplano. In 1952 it was little more tha

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'Indigenous Thinking Can Solve Cl...
April 13, 2011: David Choquehuanca is Bolivia's foreign minister; he is also a prominent intellectual, an Aymara Indian and has been an adviser to President E

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Bolivia Enshrines Natural World's...
April 10, 2011: Bolivia is set to pass the world's first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians a

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Posco Faces Another Hurdle If Loc...
April 13, 2011: South Korean giant Posco's integrated steel plant in Orissa could face another hurdle as the palli sabhas (local bodies set up to determine fo

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Orissa To Send Report Today
April 12, 2011: Orissa will send a letter to the Union Environment Ministry on Tuesday assuring that no Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD) or tribals we

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Haryana Refuses To Inquiry In Whi...
April 13, 2011: The Haryana government has refused to order an inquiry in the case of harassment of whistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi. State forest minister Cap

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Delhi Govt Firm On Waste To Energ...
April 13, 2011: The Shiela Dikshit government will have none of the protests and Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh's green concerns and stands firm on

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Jairam Ramesh Visits Tal Chappar...
April 13, 2011: Union forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday visited the Tal Chappar sanctuary. The minister made his waythere after the ina

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Naveen To "Look Into" Jairam Rame...
April 12, 2011, (PTI): Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said he would "look into" an e-mail sent by Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. Patnai

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