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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'Pollination Crisis' Hitting Indi...
September 28, 2010: A decline in pollinating insects in India is resulting in reduced vegetable yields and could limit people's access to a nutritional diet,

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Indo-Pak 'Natural Partners' To Co...
September 25, 2010: Noting that the climate change may have contributed to the devastating floods in Pakistan, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi suggested

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'Beach Erosion In Goa Could Be Li...
September 25, 2010: The extent of erosion on the state's beaches may be a result of wind speeds driving sea waves to hit the coast harder than in the past, Na

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After Lead-Free Paints, Govt Push...
September 27, 2010: Bye-bye lead, welcome LED. Using the platform of Durga Puja to create awareness among people, the state environment department this year i

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For Immediate Release: Many Ways...
September 23, 2010: In the new age of the electric vehicle, almost everything has to be rethought. In one hundred years, people will laugh at today's hybrid a

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'Lost' Frogs Found After Decades
September 22, 2010: A mission aimed at rediscovering amphibian species thought to be extinct has yielded its first results. Conservationists have turned up li

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Baby Snow Leopard Filmed In Wild...
September 21, 2010: Filmed over 5,000m up in the highlands of Bhutan in the Himalayas, the baby leopard investigates a camera trap set by a BBC Natural histor

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Global Plant Inventory Cuts 600,0...
September 20, 2010: The inventory of plants known to science worldwide has been cut by more than 600,000 species names. Many plants have been named more than

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Global Bid To Tackle Cooking Smok...
September 21, 2010: The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced a global partnership to tackle the scourge of toxic smoke from indoor cooking fire

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Pressed Plants Collections 'Hold...
September 22, 2010: Plant cuttings in herbariums around the world could hold vital clues to how the natural world will respond to future climate shifts, say r

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UN Asks For Action On Nature Loss...
September 22, 2010: Governments must protect nature better in order to safeguard their countries' wealth, says the UN, as ministers meet for a day of talks on

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Hope For Forests, But Mankind Nee...
September 23, 2010: The summer dry-season, now drawing to an end, is when the Amazon rainforest gets cut and burned. The smoke this causes can often be seen fro

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