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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Us Vs. Us
April 2009: Anyone might be forgiven for falling in love with this slow loris Nycticebus coucang and what it represents - thick rainforests, silence, purity a

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Darwin's World
February 2009:There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst

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Man’s Best Friend
December 2008: I love dogs. The ones in my home; the ones on India’s mean streets; the wild ones that run chital and sambar down in deep forests and the ones

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Tomorrow's World
October 2008: Only someone who has seen a tiger in the wild can possibly understand the weightless joy that pervades the soul when one condescends to reveal i

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Red Alert
August 2008: The general consensus is that red pandas Ailurus fulgens are related to raccoons, and giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca to bears. But neither t

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Vanishing Stripes
June 2008: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is an honourable man. And he would probably be just as moved as you or I at the sight of this strapping, young tiger

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Halt De-Greening Moves: Ramesh
July 13, 2010: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh underlined the importance of putting a check on “de-greening" activities that

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Ramesh Denies Dilution In Stand O...
July 13, 2010: Jairam Ramesh, Union minister for environment and forests, on Monday said there would be no backing off from policy of defining 'go' and 'no go

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Pranab Gives Go-Ahead For Dam On...
July 11, 2010: The three-member group of ministers headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has decided that the 600 MW Loharinag Pala hydroelectric projec

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15% Of Sunderbans Will Be Submerg...
July 12, 2010, PTI: An estimated 15% of the Sunderbans delta will go under the sea by 2020, the UN Development Programme has warned.

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Rising Sea Drives Panama Islander...
July 12, 2010, CARTI SUGDUB, Panama: Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands of indigenous Panama

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India Climate Meet Ahead Of Mexic...
July 12, 2010: (Reuters) - India will try to push climate talks forward at a two-day ministerial meeting in November by focusing on winning agreement on shari

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