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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Walk the Wild Path
Walking the Wild Path is about some exceptional people who have dedicated their lives to wildlife conservation, each a legend in his or her own right. The stori

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Birds of Pune
Birds of Pune is a gentle introduction to the world of birdwatching. The book guides the amateur in various aspects of spotting and identifying common birds.

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Tigers In Red Weather - A Quest F...
On the dust jacket of my copy of Tigers in Red Weather is this tribute to the book: “Tigers in Red Weather is the most entrancing book on tigers that I have rea

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Trees of Mumbai
This useful book will be welcomed by the citizens of Mumbai, whose tree cover is fast vanishing.

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State of the Wild 2006: A Global...
With the publication of this book, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society has launched a new series - State of the Wild.

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Golden Trees - Greenspaces and Ur...
Urban India is being stripped of its green cover as real estate developers seek to turn every last square metre into cash.

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The Creation: An Appeal to Save L...
What a gem of a book. Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University entomologist, writer, and philosopher of nature in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, delivers an

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India Through Its Birds
Anyone with even a casual interest in birds will be delighted with this new offering that pulls together the experiences of a range of naturalists and writers t

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A photographic guide to the Birds...
Though many books have been published on the birds of India, this one is remarkable for its splendid photographs in various moods and actions.

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Gir Forest and the Saga of the As...
Freely-roaming lions instantly remind one of Hemingway's Old Man, who in his dreams frequents the lion-infested shores of Africa; akin to Gujarat's Porbandar co

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Handbook on Indian Wetlands and T...
The biodiversity and the ecological functions of wetlands are unfortunately not widely recognised, especially in India. Wetlands are often regarded as mere "was

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The Western Ghats
Mohan Pai’s The Western Ghats is an attempt to fill the gap in the current literature available on the Sahyadris.

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