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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'Global Warming Was 'More Common...
March 17, 2011, (ANI): Periods of intense global warming lasting tens of thousands of years occurred more frequently in the past than previously believed, acc

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Jairam Ramesh Backs Real-Time Mon...
March 26, 2011, (IANS): Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh Saturday called for real-time monitoring of forests in order to increase the quality of

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How Safe Are Our Cities?
March 27, 2011:The Japanese had planned a worst case scenario of an earthquake of 8.4 on the Richter scale, but the actual quake registered 9 on the scale. Th

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Agriculture Sector Green House Em...
March 27, 2011: Emissions of harmful green house gases (GHG) from the agriculture sector in India declined 3 per cent in a period of about 13 years to 2007 du

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Energy Efficiency Gain For All
March 21, 2011: A global treaty to fight climate change may still be a far cry but India has come up with an ambitious plan to adopt greener technologies, to

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Bangalore: Gundya Power Project:...
March 23, 2011: Karnataka has urged the Union Environment Ministry to order a fresh environment assessment survey for granting permission for setting up a 200

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Hinduja Project Erroneous, Says F...
March 24, 2011: Former IAS officer and convener of Forum for Better Visakha, Mr E.A.S. Sharma, said the Hindujas were going ahead with their thermal project v

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Ramesh Wants Eco Impact Study On...
March 24, 2011: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has decided to withhold forest clearance to Sutlej basin Shongtang-Karcham (450 MW) hydel project

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Environment Ministry Gets Two Bil...
March 24, 2011, (ANI): Informing about the special allocation of two billion rupees under environmental remediation for this fiscal, Environment Minister, Jai

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Lavasa Gets Conditional Nod To Co...
March 25, 2011: The Environment Ministry's expert appraisal committee has given conditional permission to Lavasa Corporation to complete pending construction

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Karnataka Opposes Govt’s Decision...
March 24, 2011: Karnataka has opposed the central government's recent decision to approve Ramgad Minerals and Mining project, without consulting the state gov

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Let’s Clear The Air
March 25, 2011: Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has come up with an important suggestion. He has said that the current reporting structure

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