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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PMO Move On Arunachal Dam Project...
January 6, 2011: Oblivious of the hue and cry over sanction of hydro power projects in Arunachal Pradesh, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has sought an expl

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Anti-POSCO Body In Orissa Intensi...
January 6, 2011: While Union ministry of environment and forest has expected to give green signal in favour of the much-hyped Posco Project, the activists of

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A Doughty Crusader - Playing Poli...
January 7, 2011: The one criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that doesn’t stand up to exacting scrutiny is that he doesn’t know what’s happening in his

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CRZ Review May Land Posco In Trou...
January 6, 2011: Before the environment minister Jairam Ramesh takes a call on Posco by the end of January the ministry is expected to put up the last of the

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Revised CRZ Norms May Spell Concr...
January 7, 2011: With Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh likely to wave a green flag for the new Costal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules, the state governmen

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Environment Ministry To Have Gree...
January 6, 2011, (ANI): Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has inaugurated a site for a new building for his Ministry.Talking to repo

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Secret Voyages Of Leatherback Tur...
January 5, 2011: On 2 February 2009, at 4am, a turtle known as Tika set off from the coast of Gabon, west Africa. She spent almost six months swimming across

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Nagaland’s Wildlife Being Eaten T...
January 6, 2011: Wild animal meat may be a delicacy for many Nagas, but the trend is slowly eating Nagaland’s wildlife to extinction. Despite ban imposed by the

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Developmental Threat 'Single Bigg...
January 5, 2011: Unfazed by the criticism from some of his ministerial colleagues for delaying the green nod for projects in ecologically sensitive areas, Env

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Greens See Red As Mouda II Gets M...
January 6, 2011: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has granted environmental clearance to NTPC's 1,320 MW phase II of Mouda power plant. Th

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GM Rubber: MoEF Proposes Field Tr...
January 6, 2011: Field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) rubber will be held in “designated experimental sites inside research farms" of the Rubber Research

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After Criticism, Montek Praises J...
January 5, 2011, (PTI): Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who has been accusing Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh of blocking proje

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