In which of the following are grazing and human activity generally not permitted at all?
- A.A wildlife sanctuary
- B.A national park
- C.A community reserve
- D.The transition zone of a biosphere reserve
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, a national park. In a national park the whole ecosystem is protected, rights are settled before the area is notified, grazing and cultivation are prohibited and the boundary cannot be altered except through a resolution of the state legislature.
Option A, a wildlife sanctuary, aims chiefly at protecting animal species and may allow certain regulated activities and some settled rights to continue, which is the main legal difference between the two. Option C, a community reserve, rests on the participation of the local community and therefore assumes human use of the land. Option D, the transition zone of a biosphere reserve, is the outermost belt where communities farm, graze and carry on their livelihoods; the zone free of human activity there is the core. A sanctuary may be upgraded to a park, but not the reverse.
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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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