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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Noa-Dehings 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

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Bhagajang: A High-Altitude Wetlan...
Sandhya Sekar writes about a high-altitude wetland in Arunachal Pradesh, and the field biologists working to protect this Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot.

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The Bhubaneswar Bird Walks
Anirudh Nair writes about an organisation's mission to introduce Odisha's citizens to the state's avian wonders and create a community of birding enthusiasts.

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Narendra Modi's Development Plan?...
In his open letter to PM Narendra Modi, Bittu Sahgal stresses that he must steer India away from the ecological precipice towards which it is resolutely headed.

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Green Souls - Growing Together
The planet and its biodiversity will only be saved if urban and rural populations learn to live more responsibly, says Anirudh Nair, who writes about one orga

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EIA Resource And Response Centre
The recently-appointed Union Minister for Environment and Forests Veerappa Moily is on a project-clearing spree.

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Manglu Baiga: Kanha's Legendary M...
Bittu Sahgal writes an ode to the legendary tracker of Kanha.

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Vanya - Let The Wild Be Wild
Vanya, which works under the aegis of the Nature Conservation Foundation, was founded in May 2009 by Anup B. Prakash and Praveen Ramaswamy under the guidance

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The Wildlife And Nature Conservat...
Sadiq Alis fascination for animals began in childhood and became his lifes mission. Ali, who was born in 1966 near Chennai, belonged to a family in the leathe

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Nature Needs Half: A Hopeful New...
Harvey Locke explains the idea behind the Nature Needs Half movement that proposes that at least half of the natural world needs to be protected.

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The Wildlife Conservation And Dev...
The Wildlife Conservation and Development Centre (WLCDC) is an Umred-based NGO that was founded in 2009 by Roheet Karoo, the Honorary Wildlife Warden, with th

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Endemic Bats Lost in oblivion?
Endemic Bats Lost in Oblvion? Rohit Chakravarty and Rohit Jha explore a bat cave in search of the Kolar leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros hypophyllus,

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