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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Endangered status for grey wolves...
In a welcome move, the Bush Administration bowed to public and legal pressure in September, and announced that it would drop its efforts to remove grey wolves

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European Union proposal to limit...
Stavros Dimas, Environment Commissioner for the European Union, proposed a ban on the trade in seal products that was cautiously welcomed by the International

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Study links old-growth forests an...
A new study published in the journal Nature in September  indicates that old-growth forests and even soils in the northern hemisphere account for at least 10

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Arctic Sea ice second lowest on r...
According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Center at the University of Colorado, Arctic Sea ice has reached the second lowest extent ever recorded.

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Indonesia peat forest protection
A regional governor in Indonesia has announced an interim ban on deforestation in Riau, a region devastated by rapid loss of forests. Indonesia's forests are

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Rs. 65 crores released from CAMPA...
The Supreme Court-constituted Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has sanctioned Rs. 65 crores to the water-starved Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasth

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Canal diverted to protect the Jer...
The Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Department has agreed to divert a small portion of the proposed 270-mile Telugu Ganga Canal near the Sri Lankamaleswara Wildlife

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Turtles and Casuarina
The April 2008 issue of Sanctuary (Vol. XXVIII No. 2) carried a report on how World-Bank assisted Casuarina shelterbelts along the coast of Tamil Nadu had bee

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Protection for Satpuda watersheds
Rivers such as the Narmada, Tapi, Purna, Pench and Wardha originate from the Satpuda landscape and supply water and electricity to much of Central India (Sanc

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