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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From Beautiful Nudibranchs To Cor...
October 16, 2010: For almost three decades I’ve been studying nudibranchs in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. Nudibranchs are beautiful and brightly co

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Centre Now Tries To Save Valley O...
October 25, 2010: After the Bhagirathi valley, the Centre has now turned its focus on the enigmatic Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand to save it from a power p

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Sariska Mining Leases To Stay
October 25, 2010: The Rajasthan government has refused to cancel new mining leases in the Sariska range despite Union forests minister Jairam Ramesh asking ch

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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs" - Wh...
October 21, 2010: Take away a name and you reduce a personality to a statistic. The seven elephants killed by a train and the Jhurjhura tigress hit by a vehic

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Cause For Concern Corporates Turn...
October 21, 2010: Wildlife seems to have become the corporate buzzword nowadays. Call it a part of their CSR activities or genuine concern for environment, bi

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Deal Reached To End Logging In Na...
October 20, 2010: Environmentalists and the timber industry in Tasmania have reached a deal to end logging in the Australian island state's native forests.

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India And Brazil Head Move To 'Gr...
October 20, 2010: Governments are increasingly taking the economic value of nature into account in policy-making, with growing interest in results from a UN-b

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BNHS Conservation Education Centr...
Camps @ BNHS CEC The year 2010 has been declared as Biodiversity Year by United Nations. To celebrate the priceless biodiversity of India, the Conservation E

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Sparring With Bjorn - Round II
October 21, 2010: My last encounter with Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, was a Harvard debate shortly after he published that book. N

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India Refuses To Let WB Play Big...
October 21, 2010: In a snub to the World Bank (WB), the government has informed the latter that it won`t allow the lending institution to play big brother and

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A Monkey Watcher’s Diary
October 2010: A huge crashing sound from the nearby trees stops me in my tracks. I reach for my binoculars to peer through gaps in an otherwise impenetrable c

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An Encounter With A Sloth Bear
Early June 2010. Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka. The forest is monsoon green. With me in the legendary ‘Main Watchtower’ is Chikanna, caretaker of the Ka

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