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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Monsoon Blooms!
By September, the magical monsoon casts a colourful spell on Indian hill slopes and plateaus to create floral wonder lands. The term 'monsoon flora' is used

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Nature And Nurture
This World Environment Day, as we discuss a myriad ways to leave a better planet for our children, Miel Sahgal addresses the importance of leaving better chil

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Mark Roland Shand - Elephant Man,...
Mark Shand loved life and elephants in equal measure. His untimely demise has left a gaping hole in the hearts of those who knew and loved him. Bittu Sahgal r

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Relic Forest, Tadpoles And Foot-F...
Priti. H. writes about her first volunteering experience with a biodiversity research project, which led her into a wet world of very unique frogs and tadpole

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Sanctuary Asia And Aircel Organis...
Long walks in the lap of nature, drives through forest roads, camp fires, starlit night skies, sleeping to the sounds of frogs and insects, waking up to the s

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A Sound Economy Needs A Sound Env...
Author: Bittu Sahgal Going by our Intelligence Bureau (IB) and some of the voices in the government, anyone asking for the protection of the country’s forest

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E-Base - Creating Environment Lea...
Determined to create environmental leaders for tomorrow, the Conservation Wildlands Trust honed in on the Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, where village c

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Meet Roheet Karoo - The Man Behin...
He was nominated as Sanctuary Asia’s Young Naturalist of the Year in 2012 and has been credited with working toward the declaration of one of India’s most u

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Pangolins In Trouble
B.K. Sharma, of the Indian Police Service presents Sanctuary readers with a dire account of the ongoing, large-scale killing of pangolins and the illegal trad

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The Bhubaneswar Bird Walks
Founded in March 2013, The Bhubaneswar Bird Walks (TBBW) has turned community birdwatching in the capital city of Odisha into a conservation mission.

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Avian Encounters
Birds are believed to have begun evolving in the Jurassic Period. Categorised as Aves, these living descendants of the dinosaurs have been gifted with remarka

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Narendra Modi’s, Development Plan...
Perhaps not, suggests Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Asia, in this open letter to Prime Minister Narendra

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