Which of the following plants in India is on the critical list, i.e. on the verge of being extinct?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. India has nearly 8 percent of the total number of species in the world. b. Over 81,000 species of fauna and 47,000 species of flora are found in India. c. Of the estimated 47,000 plant species, about 15,000 flowering species are endemic to India.

The Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal is seriously threatened by the ongoing mining of which of the following?

In enrichment plantation, a single commercially valuable species is extensively planted and other species are eliminated. Which of the following species was responsible for replacing the Himalayan oak and Rhododendron forests?

Species whose population has declined to levels from where it is likely to move into the endangered category in the near future, if the negative factors continue to operate, are the vulnerable species. Which of the following species is/are not a/the vulnerable species?

a. Blue sheep b. Gangetic dolphin c. Desert fox

Which of the following endangered fauna is/are hosted by Kaziranga National park in Assam?

a. One-horned rhinoceros b. Tiger c. Swamp deer

Which of the following animals has/have been given full or partial legal protection against hunting and trade throughout India?

a. Kashmir stag or Hangul b. Great Indian bustard or Indian bustard c. Neelgai or Asian antelope

Which of the following statements is/are correct about the government run Project Tiger?

a. The tiger population at the turn of the twentieth century was 55,000. b. By 1973, the authorities realised that the tiger population had dwindled to 1,827. c. India and Nepal provide habitat to about two-thirds of the surviving tiger population in the world.

Which of the following national parks is located in Assam?

Which of the following has the largest area under permanent forests (constituting 75 percent of its total forest area)?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. “Project Tiger”, one of the well publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, was launched in 1972. b. There are 48 tiger reserves in India which are governed by Project Tiger which is administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority. c. The trade of tiger skins and the use of their bones in traditional medicines left the tiger population on the verge of extinction.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The Himalayan yew is under great threat due to over-exploitation because of the chemical compound taxol that is extracted from the tree and is used as a cancer drug. b. Many foresters and environmentalists hold the view that the greatest degrading factors behind the depletion of forest resources are grazing and fuel-wood collection. c. Substantial parts of the tribal belts, especially in the northeastern and central India, have been deforested or degraded by shifting cultivation.

Certain societies revere a particular tree which they have preserved from time immemorial. The tribals of Odisha and Bihar worship which of the following trees during weddings?

a. Mahua b. Tamarind c. Kadamb d. Mango

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

a. Chipko movement was an effort in community conservation in the Himalayas. b. The Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme has been in formal existence since 1988. c. Beej Bachao Andolan in Bihar and West Bengal is another instance of community afforestation.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. In Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, villagers are fighting for their right to mining against the Indian Wildlife Act. b. The inhabitants of five villages in the Alwar district of Rajasthan have declared 1,200 hectares of forest as the Bhairodev Dakav Sanctuary. c. JFM depends on the formation of local (village) institutions that undertake protection activities mostly on degraded forest land managed by the forest department.