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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Wildlife and Conservation Photogr...
T.N.A. Perumal, wildlife photographer extraordinaire and a true legend, treats every image as an art form. He believes the play of light produces effects th

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The Amboli Toads - Facing Climate...
Dr. Varad B. Giri, Nikhil Gaitonde and Nayan Khanolkar teamed up to provide Sanctuary Asia with a timely report on the precarious status of the Amboli toad at

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On ‘Business-As-Usual’, Naturally
Tiger mothers can be as gentle when handling their tiny cubs, as they can be fierce in their defence. This tigress, and all other cats for that matter, evol

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Meet Thanjavur Nateshacharya Ayya...
Long before the digital photography revolution, long before the rationale of shooting wildlife with a camera rather than a gun had become fully accepted, th

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Dampa - Walking In A Tiger Forest
The best way to get to know a wild place is to walk the landscape. Nimesh Ved shares memorable moments from treks in Mizoram’s Dampa, one of India’s most fasc

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Leopard Conflict On The Rise
India’s ‘leopard problem’ is a chronicle of a crisis foretold. Kailash Sankhala, the first Director of Project Tiger had warned the Indian Board for Wildlif

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Rare And Endangered Birds Of Indi...
This gallery of avian images represents Ramki Sreenivasan’s quest to search for and document some of India’s rarest birds across the country. On an ever-chan

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Elephants - The Largest Mammals O...
Bull Run: This powerful image of a charging tusker was taken on the banks of the river Kabini, between Nagarahole and Bandipur. Bulls separate from the family

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Bombax Ceiba - One Tree, A Univer...
Bombax ceiba is a universe unto itself. Also known as the red silk cotton tree, semul, Indian kapok or Indian cottonwood, this deciduous tree’s open, red, cup

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Monsoon Is Here, So Are The Frogs
Frogs and toads are amphibians -this means they live a ‘dual life’ - as larvae in water and as adults on land. They evolved from fish around 400 million years

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Sanctuary Asia’s Facebook Finds
Sanctuary Asia’s Facebook presence was a natural corollary to our evolution from print and foot-on-the-ground reporting and campaigning. Our social-network sa

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Fine Young Wildlife Photographers
This Sanctuary Cub photo feature showcases four young photographers who are going to be the torchbearers of the future of conservation and wildlife photograph

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