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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“Follow Gujarat's Lead In Fightin...
December 22, 2010: The former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and the chairman of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), R.K. Pachauri, on Tues

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India's Hidden Climate Change Cat...
January 2, 2011: Naryamaswamy Naik went to the cupboard and took out a tin of pesticide. Then he stood before his wife and children and drank it. "I don't kno

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Orissa Moots Rs 18000-Crore Actio...
January 4, 2011: Orissa is the first state in the country to have prepared the Climate Change Action Plan in the country and the state government has planned

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Expect More Extreme Winters Thank...
December 24, 2010: Scientists have established a link between the cold, snowy winters in Britain and melting sea ice in the Arctic and have warned that long p

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The Climate Change Wake-Up Call
December 30, 2010: The year 2010 started inauspiciously with the spectacular failure of the climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. The recriminations c

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Climate Change: The Black, White...
December 28, 2010: The rains have come but that is not a reason to ignore the scientific evidence on climate change. The US National Climatic Data Centre issu

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Believe It Or Not, Climate Debate...
January 1, 2011: The climate scientist Neville Nichols has long believed his role was research, not advocacy. But when he woke on the morning following the Bl

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Water Quality In Rivers 'Good For...
December 31, 2010: Cleaner rivers in England and Wales have helped many species of wildlife, the Environment Agency says. The last decade has been the best fo

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How Assam's Tea Is Beginning To F...
January 3, 2011: Lush green tea plantations, so bright they often look fluorescent, blanket the hills of Assam in northeastern India. Women plucking the leave

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Declare Sindhudurg Ecologically S...
January 3, 2011: The Sawantwadi-Dodamarg belt, where 30 of the 49 sanctioned mines in Sindhudurg are located, should be declared an ecologically sensitive are

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Disturbing Trend In Kawwal Sanctu...
January 1, 2011: If the healthy growth of wildlife population in forests of Adilabad is a happy augury, the sharp rise in instance of animal poaching has beco

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PM To Skirt Karuna Dais - Green E...
January, 1, 2011: The Prime Minister’s Office has ensured the cancellation of a public engagement involving Manmohan Singh and Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Ka

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