Test: Ecology and Environment - Bank Exams MCQ

Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves is in Brazil.

Desert National Park, Rajasthan

• Desert National Park, Rajasthan, India, is situated in the west Indian state of Rajasthan near the towns of Jaisalmer and Barmer.
• It was established in the year 1981.
• The Desert National Park is an excellent example of the ecosystem of the Thar Desert.
• The DNP is the most important site for the long-term survival of the Globally Threatened Great Indian Bustard.

The full form of CEU is Certified Emission Units. It is a standard unit comprising 1 million cubic tonne CO₂.

GRIHA is a rating tool that enables people check the performance of their building against certain nationally acceptable guidelines. It provides a definitive standard for ‘green building’ by evaluating the environmental performance of a building.

Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)

Nagarhole National Park and Tiger Reserve:

• Also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park.

Establishment:

• As a wildlife sanctuary in 1955.
• Upgraded into a national park in 1988.
• Declared as Tiger reserve in 1999.
• ​​Location: It lies in the Kodagu & Mysore district of Karnataka.
• It is a part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
• It became the 37th Tiger reserve of India.
• It got the status of Tiger reserve under Project Tiger.

• A carbon credit is a permit that allows the company that holds it to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.
• One credit permits the emission of a mass equal to one ton of carbon dioxide.
• One credit permits the emission of a mass equal to one ton of carbon dioxide. 

• The Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 was passed to provide for the conservation of forests and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto.
• Under the provisions of this Act, prior approval of the Central Government is required for the diversion of forestlands for non-forest purposes.
• The Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 was further amended in 1988.

The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) on Biological Diversity was organized in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 2010.