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 Poetry Of Nature
June 2010: Why do so many of us believe that this Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis might survive despite the double dose of bad news that confronts us

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Protecting Whales In The Southern...
June 18, 2010: A new WWF report, published ahead of the upcoming 62nd International Whaling Commission highlights how several Southern Hemisphere great whale

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Finding God in Kaziranga

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Northeast To Have A Centre To Stu...
June 12, 2010: A dedicated centre to study the impact of climate change in ecologically rich North-eastern region will soon come up at Northeast Hill Universi

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BP: Beyond Punishment
June 9, 2010:"I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be somebody's fault instead of the fact that maybe som

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Himalayan Region Ignored On State...
June 11, 2010: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Friday said the Himalayan region has been ignored on the state-formulated ecolog

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India To Add 20 mn Hectares To Fo...
June 12, 2010: India will add 20 million hectares to its forests in the next 10 years to help tackle the impact of climate change in a “big way", Union Forest

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Breakthrough In International Yea...
June 11, 2010, Busan/Nairobi:Bridging the Gap between Research and Urgent Need for Responses to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Losses   History was made

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Effects Of Himalayan Glacial Melt
June 11, 2010: Melting glaciers in the Himalayas will have varying impacts on the region's five major river basins, a study says. Changes to the flow of meltw

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Rich Countries 'Cheating' On Carb...
June 10, 2010: Some rich countries are seeking new rules under the UN climate convention that campaigners say would allow them to gain credit for "business as

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Olive Ridley Turtle Monitoring
June 10, 2010: Alarmed by the dwindling population of Olive Ridley Turtles in Orissa, the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India has set up a temporary st

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Eight-Year-Old Tigress Dies At Va...
June 10, 2010: An eight-year-old tigress died of lung and kidney infection at the Van Vihar National Park, officials said Thursday. "Bandhvi (the tigress) tha

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