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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India Gets 1st Green Railway Stat...
January 27, 2011: Railways has inaugurated India's first green station at Manwal on the Jammu-Udhampur rail route. With the tiny station facing frequent power c

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Sarus Cranes in Himachal Pradesh

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GreenKarbon Debate - 'Wildlife Pr...
November 12, 2010: A debate was organised at the St. Stephens college in New Delhi on November 12, 2010 under the Deutsche Bank-Sanctuary Asia initiated Green

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GreenKarbon: Robert Swan 'Walks T...
January 25, 2011: Robert Swan addressed IIT students, faculty members and guests of Sanctuary Asia at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai on January

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Spotting of Sarus Cranes in Himac...

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For Many Species, No Escape As Te...
January 21, 2011: Simon Joakim Kiiru remembers a time not long ago when familiar birdsongs filled the air here and life was correlated with bird sightings. Hi

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MoEF Rejection Rate Hasn’t Been R...
Januayr 22, 2010: India’s environment ministry project approval rate doesn’t seem to have been reined in significantly, contrary to its recently gained reputa

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Dealing With Corruption
January 24, 2011: The year 2010 was rocked by a series of mega scams and scandals. Now Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has ordered the demolition of

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When Scribes Got Ajit Gulabchand’...
January 22, 2011: Ajit Gulabchand, the billionaire businessman and promoter of Lavasa township — intended to be India’s first new hill station since Independe

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Centre’s Directive On Manas - Une...
January 21, 2011: The Centre has for the first time asked Assam to put its best foot forward when the Unesco-IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nat

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New Paper Suggests Greenhouse Gas...
January 21, 2011: India has once again challenged the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with a new scientific pa

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Two Private Airlines Being Used I...
January 21, 2011, (PTI): Two major private airlines are allegedly being used in smuggling of endangered species, a high-level meeting chaired by environment m

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