Science
Sanctuary Asia
Why Children Are Needed To Help Save The World
On my very first day in India, I encountered many marvelous new customs not practiced in the United States, my home country. But the most curious by far involved trees. Here and there, alongside the roaring streets of Mumbai were rings of marigold wreathed around twisting banyan trunks like dried rays of afternoon sunlight…
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September 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Who's Who?
Fact: all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads! Let’s unpack this...
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September 2019
Sanctuary Asia
The Sea Raptor
The White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster is one of the most common raptors along the Indian coastline. Nevertheless, the sight of this soaring, broad-winged, white and black bird of prey is nothing less than majestic
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September 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Bringing Up Bob Hoots.
While we were visiting a friend’s farm in the village of Yelachetty, near Bandipur Tiger Reserve, we found Spotted Owlets nesting on the tiled roof… and one of the chicks on the kitchen floor!
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September 2019
Sanctuary Asia
World Scan
CHINA’S IVORY TOWNAn explosive investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency has revealed how criminal gangs originating from an obscure town in southern China have come to dominate the smuggling of ivory tusks poached from African elephants.
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August 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Karanpura Must Live
The story of a campaign to save a landscape
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August 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Meet Erik Solheim
Environmental champion, politician, climate and peace negotiator
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August 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Bats in the land of Hornbills
“Bamboo bat!” My eyes gleamed when I heard that and I rushed for the bats, which were hanging in cloth bags.
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August 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Conservation Photography
As a precursor to the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017, a reminder that a ‘picture can save a thousand lives’. Details at www.sanctuaryasia.com.
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August 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Stop The Killer Highway Through Corbett
Even as conservationists in Assam try to minimise wild animal roadkills on NH-37, a highway that obstructs the movement of wildlife from the flooded Kaziranga National Park to the safety of the KarbiAnglong hills… across the country, another killer highway has been foisted on us by the state of Uttarakhand.
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August 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Planet Earth's Young Defenders
Sanctuary’s Young Naturalists of the Year 2016
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January 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Buildings by Nature
Cub kids, in the last issue you read about some innovative buildings inspired by nature. Read about a few more architectural marvels that prove that these are the designs of the future.
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January 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Satpura: The Highs & Lows
Captain J. Forsyth said, ‘‘in the very centre of India, lies a considerable region to which the term ‘highland’ is strictly applicable and where there are numerous peaks and ranges where the term ‘mountain’ could be rightly used.’’ This is an apt description of the Satpura National Park located south of Hoshangabad, and the location of my wild getaway.
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July 2017
Sanctuary Asia
All That Glitters...
You’re a langur.Just imagine,okay?.Not any old langur,but a very special one,with golden fur!
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July 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Adventure In The Andaman Sea
Boom! Rumble! Crash! A streak of lightning lit up the horizon and a swirling mass of black clouds darkened the already murky and choppy waters of the Andaman sea.
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July 2017
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King Of The Hill!
The Amazing Story of Jawai’s Leopards.
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May 2019
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Black Beauty
On A Search For Blackbuck In Bihar’s Grasslands
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May 2019
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A Party On A Banyan Tree!
While walking through a forested patch adjoining the famous Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh one morning, I noticed a lot of movement on a big banyan tree. On closer inspection I realised that the tree was fruiting and had attracted hordes of birds! At first, I could only see Brown-headed Barbets. But as I inched closer, I saw Coppersmith Barbets as well…
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July 2019
Sanctuary Asia
The Butterflies Of Dzongu
We were driving along when my photographer friend Sandip Das exclaimed, “Wow!” A large butterfly was landing and flying and landing again on the mud by the roadside. We stopped to examine it and were surprised to find that it was a northern jungle queen – high on our wishlist!
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July 2019
Sanctuary Asia
No Selfies Please!
Animals are not our selfie props! We must be respectful of all creatures.
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July 2018
Sanctuary Asia
Take Action
Help stop the mindless hacking of Mumbai’s ‘lungs’. Save the trees.
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July 2018
Sanctuary Asia
Humans Of Nature
The USA may have one of world’s biggest ‘carbon footprints’ but it also has some of the most dedicated environmental leaders. Meet two incredible, inspirational Americans, born over 100 years apart.
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July 2018
Sanctuary Asia
Dragonfly Tale
‘Come with a story – read, sing or mime – just make sure you come with a story,’ read the email addressed to members of the newly-formed ‘Storyteller’s Club’, Auroville. It was their first gathering at the house under the rain tree. As a full moon shone brilliantly above them, they all came forward with a tale to recount…
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July 2018
Sanctuary Asia
The Inbox
We love hearing from you! Here are some of your letters and e-mails.
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July 2018
Sanctuary Asia
The Sanctuary Interview - Meet Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj
An Indian Forest Service Offi cer, a tiger protector, a Great Indian Bustard protector, wildlife photographer par excellence, and a man whose heart beats for wild nature. Born in 1968, in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, he grew up in a tiny village called Narwana in Himachal Pradesh. He graduated in Biosciences from the Government College, Dharamsala and obtained a Masters in Botany and an M.Phil. from the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. The University of Rajasthan, Jaipur awarded him a Doctorate in 2011 for his thesis ‘Plant Resource Utilisation by Avianfauna in Sitamata Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India’. Clearly an academic, he has known Bittu Sahgal for over two decades and speaks to him about his love of photography and passion for wild nature.
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April 2019
Sanctuary Asia
The ERDS Foundation
In early March 2019, Radheshyam Bishnoi, community volunteer of ERDS Foundation, formerly known as the Ecology and Rural Development Society, a non-profit organisation working in western Rajasthan, and his birding mentor Dr. Divesh Saini (Physician and supporter of ERDS Foundation) were birding in Pokhran in Jaisalmer district.
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April 2019
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Zero Budget Natural Farming
How to fix our broken food system and stop its collateral damage on Nature
6 min |
April 2019
Sanctuary Asia
‘Bullet' Train Project
Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR)
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April 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Nocturnal, Arboreal And Vulnerable The Bengal Slow Loris
The Bengal slow loris Nycticebus bengalensis has a large geographic range spanning Northeast India, Myanmar, Cambodia, southern China, Laos, and Thailand, all the way to Vietnam.
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April 2017
Sanctuary Asia
Birding In The 'Wild East' Of India
There are few finer ways to experience nature than to be out walking in the wilds. And what gives gentle purpose to such walks is to look out for those flying avians doing what they have been doing long before humans came along. The author shares some of the delights of doing so in one of India’s least-explored birding havens… Nagaland.
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