
Bittu Sahgal
@bittusahgal
Editor @SanctuaryAsia & Founder Sanctuary Nature Foundation, working to save wilderness habitats, fight climate change & protect the next generation from ours
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Captive breeding for release in the wild has justification. But zoos created for entertainment have virtually no value. Taking children to zoos to create future conservationists, is like taking young kids to prisons to create law-abiding future citizens. Sanctuary Asia


Today is the 98th birthday of Jagat Jyoti Dutta, perhaps the oldest IFS officer alive & among the finest wildlife managers India has ever produced. Born in 1926, he is a living witness to the changing history of forest & wildlife management. As one + (Video by Nishant Kapoor )

2007. Had presented this to my Dad & it has emerged from his books. Bittu Sahgal the body of work u have produced on #wildlife will forever be an inspiration.. ๐


#EarthDay2024 theme is #PlanetVsPlastics. This garbage dump in #Pohari at the outskirts of #Kuno NP seems to have missed the attention of VVIPs who have visited Kuno #Cheetah Project since Sept 2022! MoEF&CC Bhupender Yadav PMO India Chief Minister, MP Bittu Sahgal Abhilash Khandekar




Happy to share โค๏ธ Itโs World Environment Day 2024, And๐ My picture & Write up on Rare Malayan Colugo Published in India's leading Wildlife & Conservation magazine Sanctuary Asia June'24 Honoured to be part of the sanctuary family. ๐ ๐ณ Read & Share Everyone ๐


Ramoji Rao Garu I will never forget you Sir. You had the courage to stand by me and Shailendra Yashwant Shailendra Yashwant for over two decades.



My obituary of Dr AJT Johnsingh. Remembering a man who cared for every lesser-known species, every scrap of habitat, and who walked more areas than any of us. in Sanctuary Asia magazine. Bittu Sahgal




A brief throwback on earlier interim orders that explain the significance of the current one: On Feb 19, 2024 the Supreme Court of India directed that the original comprehensive definition of #forests as per the #Godavarman order was to remain. Its implication: All forests as per



Rice is one among scores of foods that will be hit by our self-created climate crisis. We should be arming farmers with knowledge on the causes of the climate crisis, and the impact of chemicals on soils, not just the Monsoon arrival dates. Sanctuary Asia

So do YOU eat chemical carrots, spinach, apples, pears, peanuts, peas, grapes, strawberries, chapatis, rice, beans, mangoes, bannanas and more? Sanctuary Asia Chemicals assasinate soil organisms that plants & fungi use to turn sunlight into carbohydrates instagram.com/reel/DI2--AMM1โฆ


I attended one of Al Gore's earliest climate workshops in Delhi decades ago. He was one of the world's first, and most effective climate whistle blowers, as is the indefatigable Bill McKibben of 350 dot org. From us at Sanctuary Asia & Raj Phukan THANK YOU! instagram.com/reel/DLmrXkqohโฆ