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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Zero elephant deaths on Rajaji ra...
Implementation of recommendations by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) have ensured that, since 2002, no

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Czech scientists involved in smug...
Two Czechoslovakian citizens - Peter Svacha, a scientist and Emil Kucera, a forester -  were arrested in Darjeeling on June 22, 2008 with some 60 butterflies

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Tiger consumption in China
With the Chinese authorities still contemplating a lifting of the ban on trade in tiger parts, a recently conducted survey of 1,880 urban Chinese from six cit

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Fighting Climate Change in Norway
Norway has announced that it will redouble its efforts to fight climate change. It has vowed to cut its global warming emissions by 30 per cent by 2020, and s

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African lions affected by climate...
A new study reveals that droughts and floods exacerbated by climate change led to a convergence of diseases that wiped out large numbers of African lions in 1

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Returning land to wildlife in the...
In deals brokered by the Wildlife Conflict Resolution Programme of the U. S. National Wildlife Federation (NWF) since 2002, 550,000 acres have been “retired"

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Large mammals lose to humans
Research carried out by a team of scientists from Princeton University, in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund, indicates that there has been a sharp dro

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Russia enhances tiger protection
On December 19, 2007, the Russian Government created a new national park that is the prime habitat for the endangered Siberian tiger. Located in the country’s

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Is bottled water on its way out?
A backlash against bottled water is growing in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Paris and many other cities. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, representing some

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Over 50 jackals found dead in Utt...
Carcasses of over 50 jackals have been found in sugarcane fields in the Lakhimpur-Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh. Most of the carcasses were scattered in Kes

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Rhino poaching continues in the K...
On January 7, 2008, a rhino was shot dead by poachers in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Responding to gunshots in the Bagori or western range, the fore

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Tuna fishing in South India - ban...
The Kochi-based Marine Products Exporters Development Authority (MPEDA), under the union commerce ministry, has identified the Andaman And Nicobar Islands, La

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