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Subject: Environment

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements :
    1. Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to Reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants is a unique initiative of G20 group of countries;
    2. The CCAC focuses on methane, black carbon and hydrofluorocarbons.

    Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements :

    1.Most of the world’s coral reefs are in tropical waters.
    2.More than one-third of the world’s coral reefs are located in the territories of Australia, Indonesia and Philippines.
    3.Coral reefs host far more number of animal phyla than those hosted by tropical rainforests.
    Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements :

    1.The definition of “Critical Wildlife Habitat” is incorporated in the Forest Rights Act, 2006.
    2.For the first time in India, Baigas have been given Habitat Rights.
    3.Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change oflicially decides and declares Habitat Rights for Primitive and Vulnerable Tribal Groups in any part of India.
    Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements:

    1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas.
    2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce.
    3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest produce to forest dwellers.

    Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements:

    1. Some species of turtles are herbivores.
    2. Some species of fish are herbivores.
    3. Some species of marine mammals are herbivores.
    4. Some speeies of snakes are viviparous.

    Which of the statements given above are correct?

  • Consider the following pairs

    Consider the following pairs:

    Wildlife Naturally found in

    1. Blue-finned Mahseer Cauvery River
    2. Irrawaddy Dolphin Chambal River
    3. Rusty-spotted Cat Eastern Ghats

    Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  • Consider the following

    Consider the following:

    1. Carbon monoxide
    2. Methane
    3. Ozone
    4. Sulphur dioxide

    Which of the above are released into atmosphere due to the burning of crop/biomass residue

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements:
    1. Asiatic lion is naturally found In India only.
    2. Double-humped camel is naturally found in India only.
    3. One-horned rhinoceros is naturally found in India only.
    Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements

    1. As per law, the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority exists at both National and State levels.
    2. People’s participation is mandatory in the compensatory afforestation programmes carried out under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016.

    Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

  • Consider the following statements

    Consider the following statements:

    1. Under Ramsar Convention, it is mandatory on the part of the Government of India to protect and conserve all the wetlands in the territory of India.
    2. The Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 were framed by the Government of India based on the recommendations of Ramsar Convention.
    3. The Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 also encompass the drainage area or catchment regions of the wetlands as determined by the authority.

    Which of the statements given above is / are correct?