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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Don’t Cut Through Coorg!
The construction of a power line threatens to rip apart Coorg’s finest forests. Sanctuary urges its readers to write demanding that alternatives to this destr

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Pump It For Pangolins On World Pa...
Pangolins are incredible creatures. They are the only mammals that are completely covered in scales - which protect them from predators such as lions and tige

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Calling All Birders To Participat...
Big Bird Day is an annual event started by the Delhibird group to celebrate the joy of bird watching. It is a day dedicated to bird watching and enumerating s

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Marine Meadows - Following The Fe...
Following dugongs in the waters around the Andaman and Nicobar islands allowed researchers Vardhan Patankar and Elrika D’Souza to start to decode the mysterio

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The Song Of The Magpie Robin
Cara Tejpal reviews Zafar Futehally’s memoir, The Song of the Magpie Robin.

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The Sanjay Gandhi National Park P...

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Meet Anthropologist-Activist Dr....
Felix Padel is a London-born anthropologist-activist. Among other things, he was Professor, School of Rural Management, Indian Institute of Health Managemen

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Dr. Ian Player - Globally Recogn...
Dr. Ian Player, globally recognised wilderness and conservation legend, passed away peacefully on November 30, 2014, at age 87, at Phuzamoya, his family hom

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Swamped Reason
For all practical purposes, nature may well have created Anjarle beach in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, ornamented here by thousands of gulls, terns, waders and s

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Water Dog - Otters On The Brink,...
Founded in 1993, the International Otter Survival Fund works to conserve otter species across the world. Founder and director Grace M. Yoxon shares with Sanct

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Birding In Heaven
There exists a little-known birders heaven in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Heaven because, of the 10,000-odd bird species in the world, over 1,

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Conservation Photography - The Im...
There are probably fewer ways to draw out instant human responses than to use evocative images. Photography has consequently been used as a conservation too

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