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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Family Feuds
Intraspecific aggression takes place when individuals of the same species clash to compete for mates, food, territory… perhaps even such resources as a wate

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Ganesha And The Rats No One Knew
With an indisputable flair for language, Vivek Menon skillfully connects the lives of rats and elephants.

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Social Media Campaign Draws Atten...
In honour of World Pangolin Day 2016 (February 20th), UK-based NGO, Peoplefor Pangolins has launched for the second year running the social media campaign cal

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The Northeast Is Telling Its Own...
Tisha Srivastav interviews Rita Banerji, award winning Indian wildlife filmmaker and founder member of a new Northeastern initiative called the Green Hub.

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Pangolin - Most Poached Species I...
The pangolin, a rare, shy anteater species with unique, characteristic scales covering its body, is the world’s most trafficked mammal. According to recent re

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Becoming A Mountain - Himalayan J...
Soon after a vicious assault left him and his wife on the threshold of death, writer Stephen Alter found himself struggling with questions of identity and bel

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Understanding The Finer Take-Off...
Flying is obviously a unique attribute of the birds which had to be achieved through the evolutionary struggle of millions of years. Birds fly for different r

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Tiger Boy - How Kids Can Help Pro...
Sanctuary is delighted to be part of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016. On February 7, Sanctuary Asia Editor Bittu Sahgal will be in conversation with Anushka

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Flamingo And Wader Watch For Sanc...
The flamingos are in Mumbai and you could be one among a select group of Sanctuary Asia subscribers to join our team as they revel in the magic of observing a

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Reflections
How extraordinarily lucky we are to be living on a subcontinent that still sustains wild elephants. Not because they are such beautiful animals… which they

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The Wildlife Conservation Society...
From a schoolboy keen on birdwatching to an engineer, a farmer and finally one of the world’s leading tiger biologists - the arc of Ullas Karanth’s personal

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Charotar’s Crocodiles
In a part of Gujarat, a community lives in extraordinary harmony with resident crocodiles, writes Anirudh Vasava.

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