Under the schedules as restructured in 2022, specified plants are protected under which schedule of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972?
- A.Schedule I
- B.Schedule II
- C.Schedule III
- D.Schedule IV
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Schedule III. In the restructured Act the plant schedule moved from the old Schedule VI to the new Schedule III, and it still protects a short list of species such as the blue vanda, the pitcher plant and other threatened orchids and cycads, whose uprooting and trade are controlled. Option A is wrong because Schedule I is reserved for animals given the highest protection, the group whose poaching attracts the heaviest punishment. Option B is wrong because Schedule II holds animals with a lower degree of protection, not plants. Option D is wrong because Schedule IV is the new addition that lists specimens appearing in the appendices of CITES, the international trade convention, so it deals with regulated international trade rather than with Indian flora. Remember the sequence as animals, animals, plants and CITES specimens.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Wild Life (Protection) Act, which banned hunting and gave legal status to national parks and sanctuaries in India, was enacted in which year?
- A.1972
- B.1980
- C.1986
- D.1991
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The Wild Life (Protection) Act received the assent of the President on 9 September 1972 and remains the principal wildlife law of the country, covering hunting, protected areas, trade in animal articles and the schedules of protected species.
Read the full explanation →After the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022, how many schedules does the Act contain?
- A.Three
- B.Four
- C.Five
- D.Six
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The amendment of 2022 rationalised the schedules of the parent Act: Schedule I now lists animals given the highest protection, Schedule II lists animals with a lesser degree of protection, Schedule III lists specified plants and Schedule IV lists specimens figuring in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade…
Read the full explanation →A national park is declared under which section of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972?
- A.Section 18
- B.Section 29
- C.Section 35
- D.Section 38V
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Section 35 empowers the State Government to declare an area of adequate ecological or zoological importance as a national park, where no grazing is permitted and no rights of any person are allowed to continue.
Read the full explanation →Who is the chairperson of the National Board for Wild Life?
- A.The President of India
- B.The Prime Minister of India
- C.The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- D.The Chief Wild Life Warden
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The National Board for Wild Life was created by the amendment of 2002 under Section 5A of the Act as the apex advisory body on wildlife, and the Prime Minister chairs it.
Read the full explanation →Conservation reserves and community reserves were added as new categories of protected areas by which amendment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act?
- A.The amendment of 1991
- B.The amendment of 2002
- C.The amendment of 2006
- D.The amendment of 2022
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That amendment inserted Section 36A for conservation reserves, usually declared on government land next to a national park or sanctuary, and Section 36C for community reserves, declared on private or community land where people volunteer to protect wildlife.
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