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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Tomorrow’s World
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 itself in its f

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Vanishing Stripes
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 striding ac

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Dance of Death
After a decade of denial by wildlife officials, the truth is out. Wild tigers are being taken down. According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority, we

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The Deadly Web
I cannot think of a single life form on Earth that has a net negative impact on the health of the planet; can you?

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Carbon neutral squirrels; neglige...
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 canopy of thi

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Hole in the sky
Ozone depletion and climate change almost instinctively evoke a Pavlonian association with shrinking ice caps, stranded penguins and rising sea levels. But ho

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India has Green Kid Power

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Path-breaking study in tiger enum...
Heralded as a path-breaking study, recent research by a group of Indian scientists may render current tiger enumeration techniques obsolete. The new method us

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Environment Minister gives go-ahe...
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has given Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal the go-ahead for coal mining in degraded forests across the country. This has ca

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Budgets fails to meet expectation...
The budget did not deliver to India what it had hoped for in terms of the battle to fight climate change. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has offered token

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Siezed rhino horns to be given as...
It seems that there is no end to the line of people waiting to exploit India’s fragile wildlife. Even government officials are jumping for their stake in the

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Obama calls for stricter fishing...
U.S. President Barack Obama has called for a task force to develop a national oceans’ policy and a unified federal approach to ocean issues.

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