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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Dia Mirza - Nurture Nature
Discovering myself through the wonders of nature is possibly the best gift my parents and school could give me.

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Divya Mudappa - Restoring The Fab...
Heading outdoors, into forests, among animals of all sorts was always something I found irresistible. Still, it was not until I entered college to study zoolo

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Pamela Gale Malhotra - The Dream
A house on a hill overlooking a pond with a river flowing past through a wooded valley filled with wildlife and surrounded by white capped mountains - this wa

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Rita Banerji - No Set Ways
Sitting alone with a camera for hours, in the middle of a wild grassy patch atop a little knoll, filming hundreds of Amur Falcons taking turns to fly in amazi

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Dr. Vidya Athreya - Changing Pers...
When I started working in 2004, my own ideas of where wild animals should be and what they should be doing were very different from what I went on to discover

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Hornbill Haven
Amitha Bachan  K.H. of the Western Ghats Hornbill Foundation writes about The Great Hornbill’s nesting and mating patterns in Vazhachal Forest Division in Ker

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Telangana Tiger Not Jai
Sanctuary’s sources dispute reports of the Umred-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary's missing tiger Jai being spotted in Telangana, declaring it to be false news.

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A Winter Vagrant In A Sacred Fore...
Sutirtha Lahiri writes about his visit to Mangar Bani and an extremely rare sighting of the Song Thrush, a bird that breeds in Europe and migrates to Africa i

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Landscape Connectivity Critical F...
Scientists from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), India Program are calling for a re-think on conservation strategies for threatened and wide-ranging large

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Five Rare Caracals Seized From Wi...
The Mirzapur Forest Department apprehended three wildlife traders, who were caught with six wild cats in their possession. From the six animals rescued, one r

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Pregnant Elephant Electrocuted In...
Two elephants were electrocuted when they came in contact with electric wires enclosing a sugarcane field in the district of Surajpur, Chhattisgarh.

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11 Poachers Arrested In Bhadra Ti...
The Karnataka Forest Department arrested a 12 member group for poaching two sambar deers in the Bhadra Tiger Reserve.

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