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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MLAs refused bail
In a landmark decision, the Guwahati High Court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of two MLAs, Jitin Gogoi and Kushal Duorii who were arrested for going on

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Pench irrigation colony must go
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has called for a status report on the relocation of an irrigation colony inside the core area of the Pench Tiger Res

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Tigers return to Gorumara
In almost three decades, no tigers have been sighted in the Gorumara Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bengal. No wonder then that in April this year, when a forest

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Monitoring Tigers and Their Prey
It is 11 p.m. and I am fiddling with the DVD case. The title, ‘Monitoring Tigers and Their Prey’ is at once interesting and disheartening. While the golden ey

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Indian Birds in Focus: Birds of t...
June 2009: Amano Samarpan has been a frequent visitor to India for the past three decades and he has a special interest in avifauna. Following the migration o

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The 11th Hour
Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film, The 11th Hour, takes the debate about global warming into a whole new orbit. The way to stop climate change, says the superstar

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The Blue Planet - Seas of Life
 “In an age when it is not uncommon for ten people to stand together on the summit of Everest, it might seem that every corner of our crowded planet has been

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Meet Bahar Dutt
A conservation biologist, her thesis was on Amazonian primates at the world-famous Jersey Zoo.  She is currently CNN-IBN’s Environment Editor and her work res

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Royal Bengal Tiger Bachao
June 2008: Despite enhanced awareness about the impact of deforestation on public health, soils and the water security of India, the pace of deforestation is

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Salim Ali - An appreciation by Bi...
I loved the old man deeply.  As did so many others who were touched by Salim Ali's warmth, intellect and good humour over the years.  Yet I do not mourn his p

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Saving the Pygmy Hog
It is the world’s smallest and rarest extant suid and only a handful of people can ever claim to have seen it in the wild. It is 55 to 71 cm. long, weighs aro

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Stoliczka’s Bushchat - Haryana’s...
June 2001: Haryana is dry in early February, the winter struggling with the approaching spring for supremacy. I was on one of my usual birding trips in the dr

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