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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Meet Jairam Ramesh
In a recent interview to Tehelka, Jairam Ramesh, an economist by profession, said that India’s Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 was sacrosanct.That saving tige

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Jairam Ramesh - breathing fresh a...
In an interview to Sanctuary Asia Jairam Ramesh, Minister, Environment and Forests lists his priorities as follows: 1. significantly improve India’s natural f

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Conserve disconnected forests

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Why Americans must march on Washi...
The United States holds the key to global agreement on climate change. With strides being made by other nations, and only five more negotiating days to Copenh

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Rhino and tiger found dead in the...
October 12, 2009: A fortnight after the devastating deaths of three rhinos, a tiger and rhino have been found dead in the Kaziranga National Park. Even more h

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Of Owls and CO2

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Nuclear power - it's not the answ...
If that old warhorse, the global nuclear power industry, is to be believed, civilian nuclear energy is the answer to global warming. The industry says so, but j

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Quo Vadis Panthera Tigris? - Part...
In this first part of a two-part article, Bittu Sahgal and Jennifer Scarlott ask what the future holds for India's tigers, tracing the descent of the once i

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Quo Vadis Panthera Tigris? - Part...
On World Environment Day 2007, India would do well to ponder the fate of the tiger and recognise that it is in fact a mirror image of the fate of the Indian

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Should India do it alone?
October 2009: At a climate change conference held in Dehradun in early September, Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests, said that plans are afo

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Environmentalists say no to the W...
October 2009: In 2008, environmentalists were dismayed to learn that the World Bank was to hold the purse-strings for the “adaptation funds" established by the

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Lessons from Aila - cyclones in t...
On May 21, 2009, villagers in the tiny hutments dotting the marshy plains of the Sundarbans fell asleep to the gentle patter of raindrops. Within 48 hours the l

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