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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Chasing Chacha - How India’s Most...
Bags of cash, forged documents, inner city car chases, hidden tiger skins, forensic investigations, code words, revoked confessions, poachers, clues, criminal

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Sanctuary Wildlife Awards 2015

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Renewable Energy Now Provides 95...
In only a decade, Uruguay has managed to cut down its carbon footprint by shifting its dependence on fossil fuels to renewable alternatives, a step that most

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Top Media Fail To Connect Climate...
Top news media are failing to identify climate change as a contributor to some of the world’s biggest crises, including migration, food insecurity and conflic

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Ashok Kumar
It is rumoured that in his lifetime, infamous tiger parts-trader Sansar Chand was only ever fearful of a handful of people, of whom Ashok Kumar was one. One

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Maharashtra's Wildlife Heroes
Assistant Conservator of Forests, Pench Tiger Reserve, 34-year-old Sawant has, in just four years, affected revolutionary changes in four Protected Areas of

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Anahita Mukherji And The Times Of...
With 10 years of reporting on public interest issues under her belt, Times of India’s Anahita Mukherji expertly marries tenacity to activism, and activism t

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Jayan Menon And Malayala Manorama
On July 28, 2015, Kerala’s largest circulating daily, Malayala Manorama, published an exposé that blew the lid off the state’s Machiavellian, illegal ivory

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Virendra Singh Panwar
Soft-spoken, but smitten by nature, this young lad from Kolti village in the Garhwal Himalaya must walk seven kilometres just to reach a motorable road from

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Sailaja Nayak
She works with big cats across the country. And she is driven and here to stay. In 2012, WWF-India took on six volunteers to help estimate prey density in t

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Viral Joshi
India has a huge asset in young Viral Joshi, who is destined to be one of India’s finest ornithologists. At first his resume reads rather commonplace - a Ba

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Anurag Kumar
In early spring, the sugarcane in the fields on the edge of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve stand a little less than two metres high. Near impenetrable, the sweet

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