Conservation reserves and community reserves were introduced as categories of protected area by which measure?
- A.The Indian Forest Act of 1927
- B.The amendment of 2002 to the Wild Life Protection Act
- C.The Environment Protection Act of 1986
- D.The Forest Rights Act of 2006
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the amendment of 2002 to the Wild Life Protection Act. It added two categories beyond the national park and the sanctuary: a conservation reserve, usually on state land adjoining a protected area and meant to guard a corridor between habitats, and a community reserve, on private or community land where the people themselves agree to protect wildlife.
Option A, the Indian Forest Act of 1927, classifies forests as reserved, protected and village forests, a different scheme altogether. Option C, the Environment Protection Act of 1986, is an umbrella law on pollution and environmental standards. Option D, the Forest Rights Act of 2006, recognises the rights of forest dwelling communities over land and forest produce. The idea behind the 2002 categories is that protection should extend to the land between parks, not stop at their boundaries.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich was the first national park established in India, in 1936?
- A.Hailey National Park, now Jim Corbett National Park
- B.Kaziranga National Park
- C.Gir National Park
- D.Kanha National Park
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Declared in 1936 in the hills of present-day Uttarakhand, it was named after the governor of the United Provinces, later renamed Ramganga and finally named after the hunter turned naturalist Jim Corbett.
Read the full explanation →Gir National Park is the natural home of which animal?
- A.The one-horned rhinoceros
- B.The Asiatic lion
- C.The snow leopard
- D.The hangul
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Gir, in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, is the only place where the Asiatic lion survives in the wild, and its dry deciduous forest and scrub make the habitat that keeps the population alive.
Read the full explanation →Kaziranga National Park is famous for the conservation of which species?
- A.The Asiatic lion
- B.The one-horned rhinoceros
- C.The Nilgiri tahr
- D.The great Indian bustard
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Kaziranga lies on the floodplain of the Brahmaputra in Assam, where tall elephant grass and seasonal flooding suit the rhinoceros, and the park is inscribed as a natural World Heritage Site.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched in India in which year?
- A.1972
- B.1973
- C.1975
- D.1992
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Project Tiger was launched a year after the Wild Life Protection Act came into force, and it created tiger reserves in which the core area is kept free of human activity while a buffer area allows regulated use; the National Tiger Conservation Authority now oversees the programme.
Read the full explanation →National parks and wildlife sanctuaries in India are declared under which law?
- A.The Indian Forest Act, 1927
- B.The Wild Life Protection Act, 1972
- C.The Environment Protection Act, 1986
- D.The Biological Diversity Act, 2002
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It is the law under which a state government notifies a national park or a sanctuary, under which species are placed in schedules according to the protection they need, and under which hunting of protected animals is prohibited.
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