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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Progress On Navi Mumbai Airport P...
August 21, 2010: Differences between the environment and civil aviation ministries over the proposed Navi Mumbai airport project will be sorted out soon. With

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India Rejects Vedanta Mining Plan...
August 24, 2010: India on Tuesday rejected a plan by UK-based mining group Vedanta Resources to mine bauxite in an eastern state over environmental concerns,

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Climate Change Figures In Japanes...
August 23, 2010: Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday and is understood to have discussed global

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Green Jairam Puts Others In Shade...
August 29, 2010: Does Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's grip over the intricacies of his subject make bureaucrats feel overshadowed and underutilised?

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165 Industrial Units Polluting Th...
August 28, 2010: Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh has ordered the chairman, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to take stringent action again

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The Secret Diary Of Anil Agrawal
August 30, 2010: If nothing else, the Union environment ministry’s refusal to clear the Vedanta mining project proved one thing; that a pop song on repeat cyc

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Stop Polluting Ganga Or Be Ready...
August 28, 2010, (PTI): The government on Saturday warned factories and tanneries, which discharge waste without treatment into the Ganga, and said action to

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What Makes It So Difficult To Box...
August 28, 2010: It was only in the fitness of things that Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh survived the Chinese tremors he sent across Congress with

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New Airport At Navi Mumbai Closer...
August 28, 2010: Mumbai is close to getting a second airport. This follows the Ministers of Civil Aviation and Environment and Forest agreeing to concede a li

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Ramesh's False Carrot
August 29, 2010: Jairam Ramesh has succeeded in making the environment ministry a high-profile place. The parliamentary forum on environment, a low-key body w

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What They Said: Vedanta
August 28, 2010:Earlier this week, India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests blocked Vedanta Resources PLC from mining in the Niyamgiri Hills, an area in th

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India Bars Mine In Big Ruling
August 25, 2010: In a landmark decision that could bode ill for dozens of other mining and steel projects in India's remote forests, the country's environment

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