This Environment & Ecology quiz on Project Tiger and Project Elephant puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
Project Tiger was launched in which year?
Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 as a centrally sponsored scheme with nine tiger reserves, in the same year in which the tiger replaced the lion as the national animal of India.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched from which national park?
It is the oldest national park of India, and the project was formally launched there on 1 April 1973.
Read the full explanation →The National Tiger Conservation Authority was given statutory status by amending which law?
The amending Act of 2006 inserted a new chapter into it, creating the National Tiger Conservation Authority and providing for tiger reserves with a critical tiger habitat and a buffer, as well as for the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.
Read the full explanation →Project Elephant was launched in which year?
Project Elephant was launched in February 1992 as a centrally sponsored scheme to help the states protect elephants, their habitats and their corridors, to reduce conflict between elephants and human beings and to improve the welfare of captive elephants.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the elephant declared the National Heritage Animal of India?
The declaration followed the report of a task force on elephants and was meant to raise the status of the animal in policy and to strengthen the protection of its habitats and corridors.
Read the full explanation →The MIKE programme, in which India takes part, is concerned with
MIKE was set up under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. At selected sites, officials record every elephant carcass found and the cause of death in a standard form, so that the share of deaths due to poaching can be tracked and compared between countries and over time.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the largest tiger reserve of India by area?
The correct answer is A, Nagarjunsagar Srisailam, which spreads over the Nallamala hills in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and is the largest tiger reserve in the country by area.
Read the full explanation →Global Tiger Day is observed every year on
The day was agreed upon at the tiger summit held at St Petersburg in 2010, where the thirteen tiger range countries adopted the goal of doubling the number of wild tigers, and it is marked every year to draw attention to the conservation of the species.
Read the full explanation →The Global Tiger Forum, the only intergovernmental body devoted to tiger conservation, has its headquarters in
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.
Read the full explanation →Under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, the tiger and the elephant are placed in
This schedule carries the species given the highest degree of protection, for which hunting is barred throughout India and the penalties are the severest the Act provides, with the offence being cognizable and non bailable.
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