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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The Deadly Web
December 2007: I cannot think of a single life form on Earth that has a net negative impact on the health of the planet; can you? One way or another, every si

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Carbon Neutral Squirrels; Neglige...
October 2007: It’s a rodent, the smallest of the Indian giant squirrels and next to impossible to sight - largely because it spends most of its life up in the

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Hook, Line And Sinker
August 2007: Ancient Indians worshipped nature. By contrast, ‘modern’ Indians were indoctrinated by the British belief that nature was an impediment to progre

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Stern Warning
June 2007: The year is 2050. Or is it 2030?   You can wade across the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers whose glaciers have virtually vanished. The plains o

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Of Course, India Pays
April 2007: "We know how to deal with people like you."   This not-so-veiled threat was issued by antler horn traders in Maharashtra who accused me of bein

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The Art Of Living
February 2007: What perfectly well brought up young tigers!   From the time they were able to follow their mother through their forest universe, they learne

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Letter to the MoEF for interventi...

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Home
February 2010: What is it in our rootedness that virtually forces us to stay fixed to what has been ‘home’ long after the qualities that define home - comfort

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Living Together
December 2009:“Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and a

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Gandhian Grasshopper
October 2009:The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. - Mohandas Karamchand Gan

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Light Of Our Lives
August 2009: A remarkable piece of science is at work here. This tree aglow with fireflies is just one among millions in Kerala’s Western Ghats that support a

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Darkness At Noon
June 2009:When the king says there is darkness at noon, the wise man says: “Behold the Moon." - Anonymous. When the next election takes place in India five ye

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