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Question 71. The natural habitat of Rhinoceros in India is
  1.    Khaziranga
  2.    Nilgiris
  3.    Gir forest
  4.    Bharatpur
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Khaziranga
Answer: (a)Kaziranga National Park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of Assam form the natural habitat of rhinoceros in India. The sanctuary hosts two-thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses. Kaziranga is also home to the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world.
Question 72. Kanchenzunga National Park is located at
  1.    Sikkim
  2.    Jammu and Kashmir
  3.    West Bengal
  4.    Uttar Pradesh
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Sikkim
Answer: (a)Kanchenjunga National Park is located in Sikkim. The park gets its name from the mountain Kanchenjunga which is 8,586 metres tall, the third-highest peak in the world. The park is known for animals like musk deer, snow leopard and Himalayan Tahr.
Question 73. The ‘Chipko Movement’ is related to
  1.    Scientific agriculture
  2.    Deforestation
  3.    Forest conservation
  4.    Wildlife preservation
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Forest conservation
Answer: (c)
The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation.
The Chipko movement though primarily a livelihood movement rather than a forest conservation movement went on to become a rallying point for many future environmentalists, environmental protests and movements the world over and created a precedent for non-violent protest.
Question 74. The Sundarbans or the ‘Mangrove’ forests are found in
  1.    Konkan Coast
  2.    Deltaic West Bengal
  3.    Western Ghats
  4.    Kutch Peninsula
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Deltaic West Bengal
Answer: (b)
Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The Sunderbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering parts of Bangladesh and India.
This region is densely covered by mangrove forests and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger. The Sundarbans is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests.
The mangrove-dominated Ganges Delta – the Sundarbans – is a complex ecosystem comprising one of the three largest single tracts of mangrove forests of the world. Situated mostly in Bangladesh, a small portion of it lies in India.
Question 75. What is approximately the percentage of forest cover in India?
  1.    25%
  2.    19.5%
  3.    23.02%
  4.    10%
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 23.02%
Answer: (c)
The Forest area (% of land area) in India was last reported at 23.02 per cent in 2010, according to a World Bank report published in 2012.
Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.
Question 76. ‘National Botanical Garden’ is located at :
  1.    Lucknow
  2.    Bengaluru
  3.    Kolkata
  4.    Shimla
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Kolkata
Answer: (c)The Botanical Garden of India is located at Shibpur in Kolkata in West Bengal. The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden or Calcutta Botanical Garden (previously known as Indian Botanic Garden) is the largest and oldest reserve of greeneries of its kind in South East Asia. The Garden is situated on the West bank of River Hooghly.
Question 77. Where in India can you normally spot the Siberian crane in winter ?
  1.    Dachigam National Park
  2.    Keoladeo Ghana Sanctuary
  3.    Ranthambore Sanctuary
  4.    Sasangir Sanctuary
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Keoladeo Ghana Sanctuary
Answer: (b)
The Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park is formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India is a famous avifauna sanctuary that plays host to thousands of birds, especially during the winter season. Over 230 species of birds are known to have made the National Park their home.
The Sanctuary is one of the richest bird areas in the world. It is known for nesting its resident birds and visiting migratory birds including water birds. The rare Siberian cranes used to winter in this park but this central population of Siberian Cranes is now extinct.
Question 78. Which one of the following bio reserves of India is not included in the World Network of Biosphere Reserve?
  1.    Nandadevi
  2.    Corbett
  3.    Gulf of Mannar
  4.    Sunderbans
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Corbett
Answer: (b)
Ten of the eighteen biosphere reserves of India are a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, based on the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme list.
Some of them are:
Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (Uttarakhand),
Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve (Tamil Nadu) and
Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (West Bengal).
Question 79. Project tiger programme was launched in:
  1.    1994
  2.    1971
  3.    1973
  4.    1975
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 1973
Answer: (c)Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in 1973 by the Government of India. The aim of the project was to control as well as supplement the dwindling population of the Royal Bengal tigers in the country. Project Tiger is administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
Question 80. Lion is conserved at
  1.    Corbett National Park
  2.    Manas Sanctuary
  3.    Gir Sanctuary
  4.    Kaziranga Sanctuary
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Gir Sanctuary
Answer: (c)The Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is a forest and wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, is the sole home of the pure Asiatic Lions and is considered to be one of the most important protected areas in Asia due to its supported species. Established in 1965, the park is located to the south-east of Junagadh and to south west of Amreli.

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