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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The Changing Karbi Foothills: Fro...
The Karbi foothills are historically the abode of the Asian elephant. Rituraj Phukan delves into the intricacies of the human-elephant conflict that has been

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Celebrating International Coastal...

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Nature Needs Half At Work - India...
A write-up about "COCOON Conservancy" by Dr. Parvish Pandya, just got published in the August 2019 issue of International Journal of Wilderness (IJW). This a

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Meet Harvey Locke - Conservation...
Harvey Locke, Co-founder of the Nature Needs Half Movement and of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

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Is Realism Helpful?
Rapidly dwindling opportunities to act in time to end the Sixth Extinction and address the climate crisis leave many of us, myself included, torn between what

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Saving Tigers Today For A Secure...
At the turn of the last century, there were 40,000 tigers that roamed across India in the wild. Today, this numbers stands close to 2,500. To mark the occasio

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Planting Wild Trees In Karnataka
Karnataka’s Bisle-Charmadi landscape provides the only link between the Kuduremukha Tiger Reserve in Chikkamagaluru and South Canara districts, and the Pushpa

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HEC Death Toll Continues To Rise...
Village communities in Chhattisgarh’s Dharamjaigarh block continue to struggle with brutal human-elephant conflict.

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Open Letter To World Leaders Atte...
The Japanese Government’s decision to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is effective 30th June 2019, after which it will conduct commercial wha

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Surveying Sacred Groves In Sindhu...
Last week, biologist Prajakjta Pathare, visited Sanctuary’s Mud on Boots Project Leader Malhar Indulkar at his project location Tillari, Sindhudurg.  While Ma

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Illegal Land Acquisition In The A...
Sanctuary's Maitreyee Mujumdar writes to India's Environment Minister on the devastation of the Aravalli range in Haryana and its ecological repercussions.

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