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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Sanctuary’s Lifetime Service Awar...
Bittu Sahgal speaks to Sanctuary’s Lifetime Service Award 2016 winner S.E.H. Kazmi the kind of human being our children need to look up to as a true hero.

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China To Phase Out Its Domestic I...
China, known for its tiger farms and its flourishing, illegal trade markets dealing in wild species products, takes a huge step forward in fighting elephant p

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Nature’s Business: Quieting The C...
From the Galapagos to the Amazon, Biomimicry Communicator Anjan Prakash travels the world to be inspired by Nature’s designs. In this 10-part column, Nature’s

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A Cat Amongst The Pigeons
Captivated by the charisma, intelligence and ability of the cat family, Vivek Menon recounts two surprise encounters with the ubiquitous of them all - the jun

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The Village That Moved
Choosing to relocate, a village in the Karbi Anglong region of Assam, has helped secure an ancient migratory route for elephants and improved the villagers li

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Caught In Mid-Air!
Eadweard Muybridge’s photography of moving animals in the 1880s captured movement in a way that had never been done before. The images you see here wouldn’t b

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Glass Frogs
A glass frog’s translucent skin allows you to peek inside its body.

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Sanctuary Asia Editor's Response...
The article by Nicole Benjamin Fink, a highly-regarded researcher, who has worked with various cultures and conservation challenges for the past 16 years, has

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Red-breasted Merganser Sighted Fo...
A first ever officially documented sighting of the Red-breasted Merganser in India by birding enthusiasts Dr. Rajneesh Ghadi and Dr. Mangesh Prabhulkar has th

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Are the Treacherous Links and Cla...
Treacherous Links, Sanctuary Asia’s October 2016 cover story, linked the rhino horn trade to the global threat of terrorism. Trishant Simlai and Raza Kazmi ques

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Gaya Days
Sanctuary’s Lifetime Service Award winner of 2016, S.E.H. Kazmi is synonymous with Jharkhand’s Palamau Tiger Reserve. However, in the early days of his career

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Soe Moe Tun - Another Victim Of I...
Myanmar journalist Soe Moe Tun is believed to have been a victim of murder while investigating illegal logging in the country’s Sagaing region.

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