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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Kyoto Protocol, Finance Make Or B...
December 6, 2010, (PTI): Kyoto Protocol is the "make or break" issue for UN climate talks here, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said, as he pointed not onl

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Give The Planet Its Daily Bread
December 5, 2010: You’ve read about Jairam Ramesh pushing for creating a bridge with the US and other global concerns. But have you read about the rest of Ind

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Whose Steel? Who's Stealing?
December 6, 2010: In A season of scams, this is another. But the story of India’s largest foreign direct investment (FDI) is a scam of an entirely different s

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UK Gives £37m To Aid Overseas Far...
December 4, 2010: The government has pledged £37m to help develop farming practices so that poor countries can cope with climate change. International Develop

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Poorer Nations 'Need Carbon Cuts'...
December 3, 2010: Poor countries as well as rich should look to cut carbon emissions, says Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed. Continuing to equate the need t

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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal How US Ma...
December 3, 2010: Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy politi

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Saving Tigers In St Petersburg?
December 5, 2010: Even as governments, conservationists, scientists, economists converged in St Petersburg for a Global Tiger Summit last week in an ambitious

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Flogging the dead nuclear horse

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Dust To Dust
December 2010: These Asian elephants Elephas maximus, seen kicking up so much dust in Corbett, were a mere possibility on the evolutionary horizon when the di

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Monkeying With The Planet
December 2010: Companies that enrich themselves by selling packaged drinking water, flavoured or unflavoured, in plastic bottles are significant contributors

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Expedition - Talle Valley
December 2010: The road was nearly impossible. The incessant rains had eroded the sides, making passage very challenging for our vehicle. Trees brought down b

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Sand Dredging Threatens Olive Rid...
December 2010: The Dhamra Port project already poses a huge threat to the olive Ridleys in the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Orissa thanks to the port that h

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