Conventions

Question 1

Seoul Declaration

Answer 1

15th World forestry congress - South Korea + FAO - transition towards a circular bioeconomy (basic building blocks for materials, chemicals, and energy are derived from renewable biological resources)

Question 2

AFFIRM and SAFE initiatives are related to?

Answer 2

Seoul Declaration ( world forestry congress) - Assuring the Future of Forests with Integrated Risk Management (AFFIRM) Mechanism and Sustain- ing an Abundance of Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Initiative

Question 3

Washington Convention

Answer 3

CITES - legally binding - ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival

Question 4

Does CITES take place of national laws

Answer 4

No! Provides framework, parties have to create their state laws to implement CITES - legally binding

Question 5

World wildlife conference

Answer 5

CITES (COP) - CoP will decide on proposals to list, remove, or change species listing on the CITES appendices

Question 6

Management authority as per CITES requirement in India is?

Answer 6

Director of wildlife preservation, MoEFCC + Wildlife Crime Control Bureau - provides permits ( CITES functions on ‘Licensing System’ )

Question 7

MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) was established by what

Answer 7

CITES Resolution 1997 (international collaboration that measures the trends and causes of elephant mortality)

Question 8

Is TRAFFIC part of CITES

Answer 8

NO!! TRAFFIC is an NGO - jointly by WWF + IUCN

Question 9

Who leads Coalition against Wildlife Trafficking?

Answer 9

US led - India is a member

Question 10

What is Bonn Convention

Answer 10

Convention on Migratory Species [Global Wilflife Conference] - { World wildlife conference is CITES }

Question 11

What is the only global and UN-based intergovernmental organization established exclusively for the conservation of terrestrial, aquatic, and avian migratory species throughout their range.

Answer 11

Bonn Convention [CMS]

Question 12

How many appendices for CITES

Answer 12

3 [1. Appendix I includes species threatened with extinction. Trade in specimens of these species is permitted
only in exceptional circumstances — like for captive breeding. (Legal international trade of the species
does not take for commercial purposes)
2. Appendix II includes species not necessarily threatened with extinction but in which trade must be con-
trolled to avoid utilisation incompatible with their survival.
3. Appendix III contains species protected in at least one country which has asked other CITES Parties for
assistance in controlling the trade]

Question 13

How many appendices in CMS

Answer 13

2 [migratory species threatened with extinction are listed on Appendix I (CMS global conser- vation list), and Parties strive towards strictly protecting these animals. Migratory species that would signif- icantly benefit from international cooperation are listed in Appendix II]

Question 14

Gandhinagar Declaration is related to

Answer 14

CoP13 of CMS - It calls for ecological connectivity for migratory species to be integrated in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Question 15

Central Asian Mammals Initiative is by whom

Answer 15

CMS - Uses IUCN’s ‘Save our species Central Asia initiative as a funding mechanism

Question 16

Which initiative tells about the ‘global conservation status of biological species’

Answer 16

IUCN Red List

Question 17

What are ‘pink pages’ and ‘green pages’ of IUCN red list

Answer 17

Pink pages - Critically Endangered and Green pages- Once endangered now recovered

Question 18

Which is world’s largest nature conservation partnership [Global Partnership of Conservation Organisations]

Answer 18

Birdlife International

Question 19

The concept of ‘Biodiveristy hotspots’ is by which organisation

Answer 19

Conservation International - adopted Norman meters definition

Question 20

What are biodiversity hotspots

Answer 20

Biogeographic regions with high species richness, high endemism and sometimes habitat loss

Question 21

What is Conservation International’s criteria for ‘Biodiversity hotspots’

Answer 21

1. ShOULD HAVE 1500 VASCULAR PLANTS (0.5% OF WORLD’s plants) as endemics
2. Lost atleast 70% of the habitat (threatened)

Question 22

Which organisation is responsible for identifying IBAs (Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas)

Answer 22

Birdlife International + BNHS

Question 23

How many tiger range countries and what are they

Answer 23

13. India + Bangladesh + Bhutan + Nepal + Myanmar + Russia + China + Laos + Cambodia + Thailand + Vietnam + Malaysia + Indonesia

Question 24

Which tiger reserves in India won TX2 awards by WWF and others

Answer 24

Pilhibit (2020) + Sathyamangalam and Orang (2022) + Pench (2023)

Question 25

In which national park was the ‘project tiger’ launched in 1973

Answer 25

Jim Corbett [Prohject tiger - centrally sponsored - NTCA is implementing

Question 26

What is ‘Bikshek Declaration’ related to

Answer 26

Secure atleast 20 snow leopard landscapes by 2020 [Secure 20 by 2020] { Global snow leopard and ecosystem program - krygzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Pakistan + 13 tiger range countries }

Question 27

What are the 4 countries whose elephants are in Appendix II of CITES

Answer 27

Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana [ For ivory export ] { All other nation’s elephants are in Appendix I }

Question 28

What is Florianopolis Declaration related to?

Answer 28

International whaling commission(IWC) rejected Japan’s proposal for reviving commercial whaling [india is a member of IWC]