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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Book Review: Intertidal: A Coast...
Bhavya Iyer reviews Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves

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Book Review: Tiger Tiger Burning...
Bittu Sahgal reviews Tiger Tiger Burning Bright by Yashpal Rathore and Vijay Mohan Raj.

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Predatory Pitcher Plants
Predatory Pitcher Plants Endemic to the Khasi hills of Meghalaya, the Khasi pitcher plant is a wonder of evolutionary refinement, having developed the ability.

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A Himalayan Difference An Update...
A Dangerous Precedent The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change is enabling post-facto clearances for projects without adequate impact studies.

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The World After COP28
The World After COP28, Dubai The extreme heat of 2023 may have shattered all climate records and devastated economies, but we saw no sense of urgency.

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Meet Dr. Ramakanta Panda
Meet Ramakanta Panda Known as the ‘surgeon with the safest hands’, the Chief Consultant for cardiovascular thoracic surgery in the Asian Heart Institute.

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Managing Invasives: Narratives Of...
Managing Invasives: Narratives of Scale When viewed at the level of an individual forest range or panchayat, the scale of invasion can be manageable.

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Claws And Curiosities: Unravellin...
Claws and Curiosities: Unravelling the Mystery of the Battle-scarred Civet While participating in a bird count in Chandigarh’s Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary,

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The Konkan Rocks
The Konkan Rocks! Hidden amongst the sadas – rocky plateaus – of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, are hidden geoglyphs created by humans at the dawn of time.

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Sijimali Rising: A People’s Resis...
Worshipped by Adivasi and Dalit communities, the Sijimali hill is a cornerstone of their culture, the source of rivers and sacred herbs, and home to diverse.

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Why Are Mixed Dipterocarp Forests...
Why are Mixed Dipterocarp Forests… Mixed? Reminiscent of the Western Ghats, Akshay Surendra experiences deja vu while searching for dipterocarps.

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Living On The Edge In The Land Of...
Living on the Edge in the Land of Markhor Madhumay Mallik explores the perilous slopes of the Kazinag National Park, Kashmir in search of markhor – and finds.

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