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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Kataldi: Limestone mining threate...
December 2002: Limestone mining threatens to destroy some of the hard-won gains from the pioneering Chipko movement of the 1970s. Forests that have been saved

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Tehri: Thousands displaced as wat...
February 2002: The site for the Tehri dam, one of the tallest in the world, was chosen in 1961. The original design was meant to withstand a Peak Ground Accel

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Where will the sarus duet?
April 2006: The Sarus Crane is the state bird of Uttar Pradesh but this status appears not to offer the bird any special consideration or immunity by a state

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Gulf of Mannar: Shipping threaten...
February 2000: The Rs. 1,200-crore Sethu Samudram Ship Canal Project on the coast of Tamil Nadu is under consideration by both state and central governments.

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Bharatpur - Apathy spells doom fo...
February 2005: A World Heritage Site and a Ramsar Site, the Keoladeo National Park is of global importance. Successive droughts have driven away winter migran

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Vanishing Stripes
October 2005: Sariska opened a can of worms. It was not just a case of a few tigers disappearing from the Park; every single tiger had been systematically wip

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Save the Bustard
February 2002: The Great Indian Bustard is a large handsome bird of the short grass plains of the Indian subcontinent. It is now confined to few pockets in Ra

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Niyamgiris - Bauxite mining threa...
August 2004: Orissa’s Niyamgiri hill range harbours wildlife-rich forests and are home to ancient tribal cultures. A proposal for the mining of these hills by

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Sunabeda-Khariar tigers need prot...
February 2004: Not much is known of the status of Orissa’s tigers outside of the Simlipal Tiger Reserve. But there are in fact several pockets hosting viable

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Chilika: Fishermen protect their...
August 1999: On June 5,1999, World Environment Day, the dominant environmental story was ironically the ongoing persecution and arrest of fishworkers in Chili

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Unnatural Disasters: When nature...
December 1999: On October 18, a cyclone with wind speeds of almost 300 km. per hour ripped through Ganjam and adjoining districts in Orissa flinging aside all

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Debrigarh Sanctuary threatened by...
August 2003: Orissa is home to some of India's finest forests, many with healthy wildlife populations and a bright future, provided they are given protection.

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