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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Oceanside Sanctuary For Aquarium...
The National Aquarium at Baltimore, USA, announced plans for an oceanside sanctuary, which will be home to the aquarium’s dolphins. This comes as good news fo

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Badgered! Obsessions With An Elus...
The feisty, elusive honey badger has Rakesh Kalva in its thrall. Despite just one wild sighting in over two years of searching, he remains committed to unders

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Bat Conservation India Trust
The team from the Bengaluru-based Bat Conservation India Trust is dispelling myths and collecting crucial data on India’s neglected mammalians, writes Anirudh

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Birds In The Sand
On the sandbars that dot a stretch of the Mahanadi river in the Chandaka Wildlife Division, Sumant Kumar Rajguru records the very first nesting of the Indian

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An Update From The TINA Grantees
The Tina Abraham-Sanctuary Initiative for Nature Action (TINA) was launched by Paul Abraham in the memory of his wife, Tina. The initiative, which is coordina

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First Mammal Species Feared Extin...
In devastating news for conservation, the first mammal species has been lost to human-induced climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola, a rode

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Why Culling ‘Vermin’ Species Is C...
Human-wildlife conflict is a serious matter, especially when it comes to crop depredation by wild herbivores. While it is absolutely essential to create and i

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The Wild Chhattisgarh Photography...
Chhattisgarh is home to some of India’s least-known, but biodiverse Protected Areas. The Wild Chhattisgarh Photography Contest aims to draw out the finest ima

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BNHS CEC Announces Pre-Monsoon An...
Opportunity for Mumbaikars to experience the wilderness in Goregaon The sweltering heat of the summer is about to vanish as the arrival of the monsoon with a

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Rare Eurasian Otter Discovered In...
Details emerging from extensive camera trapping in Madhya Pradesh have revealed the discovery of a rare mammal species, the Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra in the

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WCS Applauds Historic, Groundbrea...
WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), founder of the 96 Elephants campaign, applauded the Obama Administration’s announcement of a near-total ban on the inters

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40 Dead Tiger Cubs Found In Tiger...
In the recent crackdown on Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno, the infamous Tiger Temple, forty dead tiger cubs and body parts of other wild animals were found

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