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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BNHS Kitchen Gardening Workshop
Kitchen gardening has been an integral part of Indian culture since ages. In urban India, this connect with nature has been lost due to time and space constra

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BNHS Listings - Green Wars Book L...
Launch of the book “Green Wars - Dispatches from a Vanishing World" @ BNHS: This book authored by Bahar Dutt discusses the threats faced by India’s myriad and r

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New Jersey And New York Ban Ivory...
The United States is currently the world’s second largest ivory market, falling only behind China. And the city of New York is the country’s largest ivory hub

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Lion Translocation Faces More Hur...
There are new developments in the ongoing saga of the impending transfer of a number of endangered lions from Gir in Gujarat to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh.

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Conservationists Protest Against...
Ten months after the dissolution of the last National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), the newly reconstituted Board has drawn voracious criticism from citizens acr

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Ministry Of Environment And Fores...
The Union Environment Secretary, V. Rajagopalan, confirmed to journalists from the Business Standard that the Ministry of Environment and Forests plans to ame

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Victory For Serengeti Wildlife
The Eastern African Court of Justice has issued a landmark decision in favour of the Serengeti National Park. The court officially banned Tanzania from constr

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Book Reading Event: “Scent Of A G...
August 14, 2014, Thursday: Book Reading event: “Scent of A Game" by Raghav Chandra: BNHS is hosting an interesting book reading event of “Scent of A Game" by

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A Sneak-Peek Into The Life Of A D...
Ace photographer Nayan Khanolkar introduces Sanctuary readers to a desert fox family from the Tal Chhapar Sanctuary in Rajasthan through a marvelous photo spr

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Lost Laurels - The Story Of A Tre...
What was once traditional and sustainable has turned into an ecological threat to the bhabar tracts of the Himalayan foothills of western Uttarakhand, write D

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Sardar Man Mohan Singh (IAS) - P...
Man Mohan Singh was responsible for the creation of the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, the largest wetland in Northern India. An unlikely wildlife hero, he used

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Wild Walk In Anshi-Dandeli Tiger...
One of the least-known forest wonders of India has to be the Anshi-Dandeli Tiger Reserve, a biodiverse wilderness that stretches over 800 sq. km. in Uttar Kar

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