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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Orang: Poaching threatens to elim...
August 2000: Orang National Park in northeast India covers an area of 72 sq. km. on the northern bank of  the Brahmaputra,  150 km. from Guwahati and 32 km. fro

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Northeast India: Threatened Parad...
June 2000: While the Northeast rainforests are recognised as a vital global biodiversity hotspot, this awareness in India is conspicuously absent, prompting get

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Green tax on vehicle owners in Hi...
In October 2008, the Himachal Pradesh government announced that it would impose a voluntary ‘green tax’ on vehicle owners. The tax collected will go into crea

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Meet Von Hernandez
Winner of the 2003 Goldman Prize, Von Hernandez from the Philippines is a trieless crusader against waste incineration and an advocate of a zero-waste lifesty

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Meet Girish Dutt Vashisht
June 2003: A Range Officer with the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), Girish Dutt Vashisht is a frontline warrior for India's wildlife and is well known fo

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Is it too late to make a differen...
The reaction of many to predictions for the coming century about climate change and its impacts is to feel overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the problem.

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Back to the future
One way to view the future is to obtain data from the distance past, for if we continue to burn fossil fuels and deforest at the current rate, within a centur

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Meet Rajinder Singh
Despite being banned by the Forest Department from entering Sariska years ago, Rajinder Singh started the Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) to restore the tattered wat

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Northeast Bengal: roads threaten...
October 2004: The East-West corridor, a six-lane highway project being undertaken by the National Highways Authority of India

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Sundarbans: Tourism threatens fra...
December 2002: The Sundarbans covers over 10,000 sq. km., 4,262 sq. km. of which falls within India and the rest in Bangladesh. As many as 50 of India's 60 ma

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Sundarbans: Shell Oil, Nuclear Pl...
December 2000: The Sundarbans, which means ‘beautiful forest’, is a fertile inter-tidal zone with a rich coastal ecology. These mangrove forests provide a nat

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Kaladhungi - World Bank project d...
October 2003: The project involves clearing the forest of all undergrowth and even small saplings, leaving only the larger trees. The result is a barren fores

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