Environment & Ecology GK Questions with Answers – Page 3

The Forest Rights Act defines critical wildlife habitat, and the Baigas were the first community to receive habitat rights, but the Environment Ministry does not grant those rights.

Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, also called Pakke, lies in the East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh and is also a tiger reserve.

Nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide are the two gases that turn rain acidic. When coal and oil burn in power plants, factories and vehicles, they release sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air.

Greta Thunberg, born in Stockholm in 2003, is a Swedish climate activist who became the face of the youth climate movement.

Schedule I lists the animals that get the highest level of legal protection in India, and the tiger is one of them.

Both 'Momentum for Change' and 'Climate Neutral Now' are initiatives of the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, based in Bonn.

All three statements about coral reefs are correct. Reef-building corals need warm, clear, shallow water, roughly between 20 °C and 30 °C, so almost all reefs lie in the tropics between about 30° N and 30° S. Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines together hold well over a third of the…

The Sustainable Development Goals are to be met by 2030, but they were not proposed by the Club of Rome in 1972.

PAGE was launched in 2013 as a direct response to the call made at the Rio+20 conference of June 2012, whose outcome document, 'The Future We Want', recognised the green economy as a tool for sustainable development and poverty eradication.

Under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, wild animals belong to the government and a protected animal is protected everywhere, but mere fear of danger does not justify killing it.

Heavy sand mining lowers the water table and exposes groundwater to pollution, but it does not reduce river salinity. Riverbed sand acts as a sponge and a filter: it stores water, recharges the aquifers along the river and cleans water as it seeps down.

M-STrIPES stands for Monitoring System for Tigers: Intensive Protection and Ecological Status. It was introduced by the National Tiger Conservation Authority around 2010, with technical support from the Wildlife Institute of India, for use in tiger reserves.

These rules, notified under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and in force from May 2012, made extended producer responsibility, or EPR, their central feature.

Greenwashing is misleading green marketing. The word joins "green" with "whitewashing", which means covering up faults.

The International Solar Alliance was launched at the 2015 climate conference, but it does not include every UN member.

It is the only one of the four set up as an authority under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. The Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) was constituted in 1997 under Section 3(3) of the Act, following a Supreme Court direction in the M.C.

All three appliances carry the BEE Star Label. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency was set up in 2002 under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001, and launched its Standards and Labelling programme in 2006.

The Gulf of Cambay, or Khambhat, has no coral reefs because its water is muddy and its tides are among the strongest on India's coast.

The Basel Convention controls the movement of hazardous wastes across borders and their disposal, to protect human health and the environment.

In this chain each organism is eaten by the next: grass, a producer, is eaten by the goat, a herbivore, and the goat is eaten by humans, so energy passes in a straight line.