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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Zoos Dehumanise Us
The Mumbai zoo’s latest imports, eight Humboldt Penguins, are here and stirring up quite a controversy. Editor-in-chief, Sanctuary Cub magazine and mother to

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Unhappy Feet - Humboldt Penguins...
Say No! to imprisoning Humboldt Penguins - found naturally in Peru and Chile, in Mumbai’s Byculla Zoo.

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White Out
The oddities of the natural world have always sparked the human imagination. While melanistic animals have been the talk of the town for the past few years,

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T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad
The extraordinary if unassuming T.N. Godavarman made history in 1996 when he won a legal victory in favour of forest protection. Bittu Sahgal remembers this

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Kanha National Park - The Pride O...
Of the thousands of visitors who enter Kanha National Park each year, no more than a handful are aware of the behind-the-scenes activity that is responsible f

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Meet Dia Mirza - Actor, Activist,...
Part of the Sanctuary family since 2013, and the face of the Leave Me Alone campaign, actor Dia Mirza is evolving into a key public opinion mover and champi

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No Legs To Stand On
“What is there to life... if man cannot hear the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night?"— Chief Seattle

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Tamil Nadu’s Elephantine Shame
A Sanctuary report on wild elephant deaths in Tamil Nadu, and the urgent need for the forest department, state government and railway authorities to work toge

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Messages Etched In Wood
Messages Etched in Wood are ignored by human policies, writes journalist-conservationist Neha Sinha

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Have You Seen This? Tapping Into...
Asks Nitya Prakash Mohanty as he winds his way through the villages of the Andaman Islands in an effort to find the origins of a bullfrog invasion.

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Banj, Beasts And People - Life On...
While walking through the degraded Banj oak forests of the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary in the company of villagers, Upma Manral worries that exclusionist for

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The Last Flight
Neglecting the significant role of raptors in the ecosystem doesn’t bode well for their conservation, writes Sanctuary’s Assistant Editor Anirudh Nair.

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