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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Barack Obama elected
In the U.S. election on November 4, 2008, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama became President-Elect of the United States, beating Senator John McCai

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White sturgeon makes a comeback
Die-offs of white sturgeon in British Columbia’s Fraser river in the mid-1990s led scientists to fear that North America’s largest freshwater fish could be he

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Big ethanol comes to the dark con...
Although increased ethanol production in the U.S. is raising greenhouse gas emissions and fertiliser pollution in that country, it continues to produce ethanol

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Brown clouds forming over Asia
The U.N. Environment Programme reported that a dirty, brown haze a mile thick, called “atmospheric brown clouds," is darkening the skies over vast areas of As

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Asiatic Lion - Mines threaten Guj...
December 2004: The status of the Gir National Park might have been consolidated, as evidenced from the rise in lion population to over 320 individuals. As Gir

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The Narmada Project: Death by wat...
August 1999: The people of the valley have decided not to move from their ancestral lands because they have not been rehabilitated. The Narmada Bachao Andolan

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Saving the sharks: Marine species...
August 2001: Sharks are the apex predators of the oceans, helping to maintain the marine ecosystems in which they live. The trade in shark fins, which are in

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The Andamans: Onges in trouble
October 1999: The Onges are one of four Negrito tribal communities still surviving on the Andaman islands. Only a hundred individuals remain on the 732 sq. km

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Inchampalli hydroelectric project...
Inchampalli hydroelectric project endangers wild buffalo and tiger habitatAndhra Pradesh, August 2003The Indravati is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful rive

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Start your own NGO
Start your own NGO An NGO is a formal association of people who voluntarily come together for a particular purpose. Among these are NGOs working specifica

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Adapt Your Lifestyle!
You CAN make a difference! - By Bittu Sahgal When most people think of the massive environmental problems ahead of us, they wonder how anything they could

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Assam's forests: Hoolock gibbons,...
December 2000: Since 1998, activists from the local NGO Nature's Beckon have mapped a contiguous 800 sq. km. stretch of rainforests in upper Assam's Dibrugarh a

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