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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Meet Pandit Hanuman Sharma
April 2003: He reduced 1,000 people to tears when he sang out his acceptance speech as Sanctuary named him the Green Teacher of the Year 2002. An 'unsung' her

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Meet A.R. Bharati
February 2003: A winner of the Sanctuary Wildlife Service Award in 2002, this courageous forest officer talks to Bittu Sahgal about forests, water and flawed

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Meet P.K. Sen
P.K. Sen has spent his life protecting tiger habitats.December 2002: He speaks his mind, is not cowed down by politicians and is more comfortable with forest

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Meet Bikram Grewal
October 2002: His Birds of India has sold more copies than any other bird book authored by an Indian in the past decade. He loves the underdog, hates pompous

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Meet Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Better known for his oratory, poetry and, in recent years, his artful handling of one of India's most difficult coalition governments, Prime Minister Vajpayee

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Meet Biswajit Mohanty
June 2002: Winner of the Sanctuary-ABN AMRO Wildlife Service Award in 2001, this young Chartered Accountant has become one of Orissa's most persistent wildlif

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Meet Nitin Kakodkar
April 2002: Deputy Conservator of Forests, Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, Nitin Kakodkar received a Sanctuary ABN AMRO Wildlife Service Award 2001

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Meet Qasim Wani
Born in Harwan, Dachigam, Kashmir in 1933 to Fatima and Abdul Rahman Wani (the late Maharaja Hari Singh's head shikari), Qasim Wani knew from the age of eight

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Meet S.C. Sharma
December 2001: Born in a small village in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh and brought up in Shikohabad, Suresh Chandra Sharma has worked for 39 years fo

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Meet Mitali Kakar
October 2001: Director of Reefwatch Marine Conservation, expert scuba diver, shark protector, professional film-producer, underwater videographer and mother o

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Meet Kishor Rithe
Kishor Dnyaneshwar Rithe gave up his secure lecturer's job at an engineering college to work full-time on the one mission that drives his purpose - wildlife c

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Meet Alok Saxena
June 2001: His job as the Chief Wildlife Warden of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is probably twice as difficult as that of most of his colleagues in mainlan

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