Which award given to individuals or communities from rural areas that have shown extraordinary courage and dedication in protecting wildlife?
1. Venu Menon Animal Allies Award
2. Amrita Devi Bishnoi Award
3. David Shepherd Wildlife Award
4. The Pledge Award
Slash and burn agriculture leads to nutrient depleted soils and deforestation if:-
1. crash crops are implanted rather than cereals
2. it is practiced in a sufficiently larger area
3. some useful trees are retained by the farmers
4. sufficient time is not allowed to the land to recover
The UN Conference of Parties on climate change in the year 2011 was held in
(1) Poland
(2) South Africa
(3) Peru
(4) Qatar
Joint Forest Management Concept was introduced in India during
(1) 1970s
(2) 1980s
(3) 1990s
(4) 1960s
The UN conference of Parties on climate change in the year 2012 was held at
1. Durban
2. Doha
3. Lima
4. Warsaw
A renewable exhaustible natural resource is
1. coal
2. petroleum
3. minerals
4. forest
Chipko movement was launched for the protection of
1. grasslands
2. forests
3. liverstock
4. wet lands
Which one of the following is being tried in India as a biofuel substitute for fossil fuels?
1. Jatropha
2. Azadirachta
3. Musa
4. Aegilops
Which one of the following is being utilized as a source of bio- diesel in the Indian
countryside?
1. Euphorbia
2. Beetroot
3. Sugarcane
4. Pongamia
Cattle ranches are known to causes acute green house effect. This is due to
(1) mechanized milking practices
(2) methanogenic bacteria in rumen
(3) decomposition of left over fodder
(4) decomposition of organic remains in faeces.