Environment & Ecology Mixed Quiz: Set 63

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.

Nallur, near Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru, is an old stand of tamarind trees, some of them several centuries old, and Karnataka declared it the first Biodiversity Heritage Site of the country under section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act.

Both statements are correct, because Biodiversity Management Committees are the grassroots bodies through which India carries out access and benefit sharing.

The 2022 amendment to the Energy Conservation Act empowered the Central Government to specify a carbon credit trading scheme, to prescribe a minimum share of non-fossil energy for designated consumers, and to extend the building code to large residential buildings.

The Chambal River holds the largest wild population of gharials in the world and is protected as the National Chambal Sanctuary.

Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water, commits countries to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources, with targets on reducing marine pollution from land-based activities, protecting coastal ecosystems, addressing ocean acidification, ending overfishing and conserving coastal and marine areas.

The Ramsar Convention is the treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. It was signed on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the Caspian Sea and came into force in 1975, which makes it one of the oldest global environmental agreements.

In the restructured Act the plant schedule moved from the old Schedule VI to the new Schedule III, and it still protects a short list of species such as the blue vanda, the pitcher plant and other threatened orchids and cycads, whose uprooting and trade are controlled.

Sulphur dioxide is an air pollutant, not one of the greenhouse gases; in fact the sulphate particles it forms reflect sunlight and have a slight cooling effect.

W. A. Rodgers and H. S. Panwar of the Wildlife Institute of India proposed the ten-zone biogeographic classification in 1988 while planning a representative wildlife protected area network for the country, and the ten zones with their biotic provinces are still the official framework.

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

The correct answer is B, the Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata, opened to the public in 1876 and therefore the oldest formally established zoo in the country.

The National Green Tribunal was established in October 2010, and the 11th Plan ran from 2007 to 2012. The tribunal was created by the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, which drew on Article 21's right to a healthy environment.

The Global Tiger Forum was formed in the nineteen nineties as an international body of tiger range countries and others working for the conservation of the species, and its secretariat is in New Delhi, which reflects the share of the world's wild tigers that India holds.

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

The taiga forms an almost unbroken belt of needle leaved softwood trees, mainly pine, spruce, fir and larch, right across the northern parts of Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia, and this belt covers a greater area of land than any other biome.

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.

Operation Olivia is the Indian Coast Guard's annual mission, begun in the early 1980s, to protect Olive Ridley turtles off the Odisha coast.

Only statement 1 is correct: the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016 creates CAMPA at both levels but does not make people's participation compulsory.

A carbon border adjustment exists to stop carbon-intensive activity from moving out of a strict jurisdiction, not to help it move, and its aim is to make climate policy work better.