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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Sanctuary Monsoon Nature Trail At...
Sanctuary Asia would like to invite subscribers and their families for a nature trail led by the Sanctuary team in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on S

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Eminent Scientist Proposes ‘Half...
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. E.O. Wilson is widely considered the world’s foremost advocate for biodiversity. The 85-year-old Harvard University scie

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Sea Turtles
Rahul Alvares is amazed by how sea turtles have successfully survived for at least a 100 million years, outliving dinosaurs which perished about 65 million ye

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Meet Environmentalist Wangari Maa...
One person is enough to change the world, says Jennifer Scarlott. Meet Wangari Maathai, an environmentalist, who was inspired by a little hummingbird’s tale.

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Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Aw...

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Ring-Tailed Lemur
Did you know the ring-tailed lemur is found only on the island of Madagascar? At least 50 different species of lemurs call Madagascar home, though some estima

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SC Halts Clearance Spree, Sends N...
C.B. Singh is the unlikely man of the hour as wildlife conservationists celebrate a Supreme Court directive to put on hold all decisions taken by the newly re

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Rare Butterfly Species, Kaiser-I-...
Lepidopterists and butterfly enthusiasts in India have reason to celebrate.  Participants at a butterfly meet, held in Arunachal Pradesh’s Ziro village in Aug

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Wildlife Photography Awards Admin

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Monsoon Moods From Coochbehar, We...
Coochbehar in the far east of India in the state of West Bengal is a small, beautiful town bounded by Assam in the east, Jalpaiguri to the north and the Indo-Ba

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The Humble Barnacle
Anjana Manjunath saw goose barnacles on a Goan beach, which had entrusted their survival to a plastic bottle to which they had attached themselves and ponders

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Noa-Dehing’s White-bellied Herons
Gopinathan Maheswaran of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) who led the first-ever study on the foraging and nesting habits of the critically endangered Whi

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