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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Tribal Tigers: How A Shamanic Com...
It was March 2012. I was in the Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh conducting surveys for a renowned conservation organisation to determine t

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‘Bullet’ Train Project
The ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) or ‘Bullet’ Train Project has mystically secured the wildlife and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearan

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Workshops For Forest Officials, S...
To mark World Forest Day and World Sparrow Day, which respectively fall on the 20th and 21st of March, Sanctuary's Project Leader Bhuvaneshwara HC led  worksh

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Sacred Grove Clean-Up In Sindhudu...
On March 10, 2019, Sanctuary's Mud on Boots Project Leader Malhar Indulkar led 15 students on a clean-up drive at Maulichi kond, a sacred grove along the Tere

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Sea Turtle Conservation Workshop...
On Feburary 13, 2019, 10 children from the Terra Conscious Learning Centre in Goa went on a field trip to Morjim beach. Here, they spent two hours with Rajan

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Five Grassroots Wildlife Conserva...
On January 28, 2019, the Sanctuary Nature Foundation welcomed five new members into its fold. These individuals have been selected as Project Leaders under Sa

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Rushikulya - Where The Olive Futu...
An awestruck Arghya Adhikary takes us along his dramatic journey to Rushikulya, Odisha, where he witnessed one of the most amazing mysteries unfold - the mass

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Our Mother
Nikhil Devasar and Sheila Chhabra recall times when it was possible to see flamingos foraging by the Yamuna river in Delhi. Now the birds are long gone, and t

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Caucasus - Asia Meets Europe
As he straddles the boundaries of Russia and Azerbaijan through the Caucasus, where Asiatic and European flora and fauna converge, M.K. Ranjitsinh sights maje

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Photography As Art
Traditionally, Sanctuary has always insisted that wildlife images be kept true to what the photographer sees through the lens. That is still our hard positi

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MoEFCC Requests Cooperation From...
On January 7,2019, exactly a month after the the collaborative campaign to save the Great Indian Bustard was launched by Conservation India, The Corbett Found

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Chhattisgarh Elephant Crisis, Her...
On December 26, 2018, the ongoing human-elephant conflict crisis in Chhattisgarh reached a boiling point when a herd of elephants entered Korba city.

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