This Environment & Ecology quiz on Sacred Groves and Community Conservation in India 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
Sacred groves are known as Kavu in which state of India?
In Kerala a sacred grove is called a Kavu, and a grove kept for the serpent deities, which almost every old family compound of the state once had, is called a Sarpa Kavu.
Read the full explanation →The sacred groves called Orans are a feature of which state?
An Oran is a patch of desert vegetation in western Rajasthan dedicated to a folk deity, made up of khejri, kair, jaal and rohida trees and the grass between them.
Read the full explanation →The famous Mawphlang sacred forest, kept by the Lyngdoh clan, is in which state?
Mawphlang lies in the Khasi hills south of Shillong and is the best known sacred grove of India.
Read the full explanation →At Khejarli in 1730, the Bishnois led by Amrita Devi gave their lives to protect which tree?
Khejri, the Prosopis cineraria of the Thar, is the tree the Bishnois hold sacred, and it is the state tree of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →The founder of the Bishnoi sect, whose twenty nine rules forbid the felling of green trees, was:
Jambheshwar, known affectionately as Jambhoji, founded the Bishnoi sect in 1485 in the Bikaner desert. He laid down twenty nine rules of conduct, and the name Bishnoi comes from bis, twenty, and noi, nine.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment introduced conservation reserves and community reserves as categories of protected area in India?
Until then the Act of 1972 knew only national parks and sanctuaries, both of which need state ownership and control.
Read the full explanation →Biodiversity Management Committees and Biodiversity Heritage Sites are provided for by which law?
It builds a three tier system: the National Biodiversity Authority at the centre, State Biodiversity Boards, and a Biodiversity Management Committee in every local body, which keeps a People Biodiversity Register of the plants, animals and traditional uses of its area.
Read the full explanation →The first Biodiversity Heritage Site declared in India was:
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.
Read the full explanation →The Arabari experiment, which became the model for Joint Forest Management in India, was carried out in which state?
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.
Read the full explanation →Van Panchayats, the village forest councils set up under rules framed in 1931, are a feature of which hills?
After years of protest against the reservation of hill forests, the colonial government allowed Kumaon villages to manage part of the civil forest themselves through elected Van Panchayats under rules framed in 1931.
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