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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Reprieve For Old Forest As Gunns...
 September 10, 2010: TIMBER giant Gunns Ltd has broken ranks with Tasmania's forest industry and confirmed it will pull out of native forest logging altogethe

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Global Warning: Environmental Ref...
September 15, 2010: Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in north-west Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted.

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35 Goa Mining Leases Get Notices...
September 15, 2010: Atleast 35 mining leases, operated by various firms in Goa have been issued show-cause notices by the State Pollution Control Board for fa

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Two Cubs Still Missing After Figh...
September 15, 2010: Two fighting big cats, one wounded tigress, and two missing cubs at the Panna reserve have raised questions about some aspects of the tige

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Two More Tiger Reserves In Mahara...
September 15, 2010: Saving the tiger has received a fillip as two more wildlife sanctuaries in Vidarbha are to get tiger reserve status. Maharashtra already h

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BNHS Field Botany Course - 2010-1...
We are happy to announce our third batch of Basic Field Botany Course 2010-11. The major objectives are to inculcate scientific approach in plant identificati

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Amphibian Workshop At BNHS - Sept...
Want to know more about the beautiful world of amphibians - this is a chance! Not much is spoken or known about the Indian amphibians. We don’t know how to

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Chhattisgarh's Industrial Jungle
September 10, 2010: Chhattisgarh is set to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron. The push is on to install 77 per cent of Indi

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Selfish Eyes On A Sacred Hill
September 10, 2010: Can a mining company dig up a hill that tribals worship as sacred? When the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) last week rejected

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Freshwater Turtles Face 'Bleak Fu...
September 10, 2010: The group says more than a third of the estimated 280 species around the world are now threatened with extinction.

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Half Ton Of Wriggling Wildlife Se...
September 6, 2010: Phnom Penh - Cambodian military police have confiscated almost 500 kilograms of snakes and turtles from a boat headed to Vietnam, national

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Carbon Credit Scam Slur On Indian...
September 13, 2010: Members of a United Nations panel have charged that some Third World companies are producing far more of a deadly greenhouse gas than they

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