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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Return Of The Cheetah?
October 2010: Despite its immense and increasing demographic pressures, India has lost only one large wild mammalian species since the country’s Independence

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President's Nod To Amendments In...
October 19, 2010: Aimed at controlling wildlife crime, the President of India Pratibha Singh Patil has given the assent to amendments in the Wildlife Protecti

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Evaluation Team To Visit Pench, T...
October 20, 2010: A four-member National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) team of experts, constituted for an independent management effectiveness evaluati

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Panel To Visit YSR Memorial Site...
October 20, 2010: A panel appointed by NTCA will visit the proposed site of Dr YSR Reddy memorial (Smruthi Vanam) at Nallamala forest in Andhra Pradesh on Oct

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India Set To Be First Country To...
October 20, 2010: India is today expected to become the first country in the world to commit to publishing a new set of accounts which track the nation's plan

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On Parasitism
October 2010: It’s been over 150 years since Charles Darwin’s seminal work, On the Origin of Species. Yet, the molecular foundation for natural selection, a k

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Tree By Tree
October 2010: They tell us they want to spend our hard-earned tax money to connect rural to urban India and thus improve the lives of the poor. They also say

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Meet Madhav Rajaram Subrahmanyam
He is just 13 years old, but Madhav has known Bittu Sahgal, who spoke to him in Mumbai, since he was six years old. He came into the conservation fold through

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The Aranya Wildlife Trust
October 2010: Guided by the belief that conservation and community development go hand in hand, the Aranya Wildlife Trust (earlier called Vanya) works with vi

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Down With Trees. Let’s Build Road...
October 2010: The National Highway Authority (NHAI) of India is on a rampage across the country. Bulu Imam, Regional Convener, INTACH, who lives in Jharkhand

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National Wildlife Week - Grim, Gr...
Sanctuary Cover Story October 2010: The future of India's wildlife has never been grimmer. People around the country - wildlifers, lawyers, young activists,

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Mega Dam Project: Farmer Body Hol...
October 15, 2010, (PTI): A prominent farmers' body on Friday held protests at various parts of the state, accusing Chief Minister Dorji Khandu of "putting pre

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