Monohar Pandey Solutions for Exercise 5: Exercise 5

Biodiversity as defined under Biological Diversity Act, 2002 includes which of the following?

1. Variability among living organisms

2. Variability of ecological complexes

3. Diversity within species or between species

4. Diversity of ecosystem

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Reserved Forest (RF) area of land duly notified under provisons of India Forest Act or State Forest Act, have full degree of protection. Choose correct statement (s) regarding RF.

1. All activities are prohibited unless permitted.

2. It is notified under of Indian Forest Act 1927 or under reservation provision of Forest Act of State Government.

3. State Government issues preliminary notification to constitute a Reserved Forest.

4. Centre eventually has a decision in declaring Reserved Forest.

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Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as Earth Summit, resulted in following documents?

1. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

2. Agenda 21

3. Forest principles

4. Legally binding agreements in form of convention on Biological Diversity and UNFCCC

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Match the following

Treaties/ Protocol                            Objective

A. Cartagena                                 1. Persistent organic pollutant

B. Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur              2. Transboundary movement of hazardous waste

C. CMS (Bonn Convention)           3. Migratory species of wild animals

D. Stockholm Convention              4. Response in case of damage to biodiversity resulting from LMO

E. Basel Convention                      5. Biosafety

Which among the following statements is incorrect?

Consider the following statements about Earth Summit 1992

1. Earth Summit held at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 led to the enforcement of a legally binding convention on biological diversity.

2. It also led to the formulation of a document on forest principles to emphasise national sovereignty over forests and intolerance towards any kind of foreign encroachment.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding Project Brahma?

1. It aims to document ideas on Education, Environment and Society related on relevant to India.

2. www.biodiversityofindia.org is a website related to the project.

3. It is an open-source community driven project.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which among the following conferences/commissions is recognised as the beginning of modern political and public awareness of global environmental problems?