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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Umred - Karhandala To Be Consider...
The efforts of Sanctuary Asia, and its partners in Vidarbha, for the Umred - Karhandala Wildlife Sanctuary (UKWS) of Nagpur district to be recognised as a tig

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Sanctuary Asia Endorses IntAct St...
Sanctuary Asia is honoured to be associated as a member organisation with the International Action for Primary Forests (IntAct), and endorse the comprehensive

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2,50,000 Short-Toed Larks Poached...
Despite the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, Short-toed Larks, locally referred to as Bageri, in the Birbhum district of West Bengal may hit a steady decline as

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Tigers Extinct In Buxa?
Amidst the news over the growing tiger numbers in the country, alarming statistics emerged from the recently concluded All India Tiger Estimation exercise. Th

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Honey Badgers
Honey badgers get their name from their favourite food. Also know as ratels, they forage for honey and eat it straight out of the beehive! These highly intell

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Wrinkled Frogs
Most amphibians lay eggs in water, but this interesting frog, which is about six centimetres in length and has a call resembling that of a bird, takes a diffe

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A Reason To Rejoice
Animal lovers have a reason to rejoice as a famous circus decides to phase out performing elephants, writes Jennifer Scarlott.

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Wild Pench!
India’s wildlife is unparalleled. Especially in Mowgli’s land! The wilderness jewel featured on these pages lies only a couple of hours from Nagpur. Known a

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Conservation Opportunities Throug...
India became the world’s first country to adopt an agro-forestry policy, last year. Experts are now paving pathways to gather policy-relevant scientific data

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Head Of Project Tiger Writes To K...
Sanctuary Asia’s one million Kids For Tigers receive a heartwarming letter from Bishan Singh Bonal, the Member Secretary of India’s National Tiger Conservatio

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The Starving Elephants Of Udawala...
In March 2015, documentary filmmaker Keya Vaswani sent Sanctuary Asia a series of images clicked by her friend Andrew Bembridge in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe Natio

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Energy Saving App Launched With S...
Technology for sustainability? TBWA/India and Sanctuary Asia have launched Roaming Switch, an energy saving mobile app that will help cut your carbon footprin

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