Environment & Ecology Mixed Quiz: Set 64

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.

At Arabari in the Midnapore district, a forest officer stopped treating villagers as encroachers and offered them a share of the sal harvest in return for protecting the degraded forest.

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

The Act lists energy-intensive sectors in a schedule, and units in them above a notified threshold of annual energy consumption become designated consumers; each must appoint or designate an energy manager, have an energy audit carried out at prescribed intervals, keep records of energy consumed and comply with the consumption…

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.

A containment boom is a floating barrier with a skirt below the waterline and floats above it, towed or anchored around a slick to hold the oil in a smaller area so that it can be recovered and kept away from beaches, mangroves and water intakes.

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…

Roots take up nitrogen chiefly as the nitrate ion and to a smaller extent as ammonium; inside the plant the nitrate is reduced and built into amino acids, proteins and nucleic acids.

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

Gold mining and coal burning are the two biggest human sources of mercury, and no level of exposure is known to be safe.

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.

The text of CITES was agreed by the representatives of eighty countries meeting at Washington in the United States in 1973, which is why the treaty is also called the Washington Convention; it then entered into force on 1 July 1975, and India became a party in 1976.

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.

Declared in Gujarat in 1980, it was the first area in India to be notified as a marine national park, and it covers a chain of islands carrying coral reefs and mangrove along the Gulf of Kachchh.

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

The Green India Mission aims to protect, restore and enhance India's forest cover and to respond to climate change through both adaptation and mitigation.

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.

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

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