Environment Flashcards
What is a Blue Flag beach?
Is Blue Flag certification available only for beaches?
Who provides the certification?
Eco-tourism model - marks out beaches as providing tourists and beachgoers clean and hygienic bathing water, facilities/amenities, a safe and healthy environment, and sustainable development of the area.
No, it is also available for marina and a sustainable boating tourism operator.
International, non-governmental, non-profit organization FEE (the Foundation for Environmental Education).(Started in 1985)
Criteria to get Blue Flag certification?
Nearly 33 Criteria - the water meeting certain quality standards, having waste disposal facilities, being disabled- friendly, have first aid equipment, and no access to pets in the main areas of the beach. Some criteria are voluntary and some compulsory.
India’s Blue flag certified beaches and which was the first one in Asia to get that title?
Kappad (Kerala), Shivrajpur (Gujarat), Ghoghla (Diu), Kasarkod and Padubidri (Karnataka), Rushikonda (Andhra Pradesh), Golden Chandarbhagar (Odisha) and Radhanagar (Andaman & Nicobar Islands).
What is Importance of Kochi - Mangalur Pipeline of LNG?
LNG’s Share of total energy supply is now 6% which is aimed to increase 15% within 2030.
It is also cheaper and Convenient.
With 10,000 CNG stations and 1 Lakh PNG connections.
Asian Water bird Census? Conducted by? Method? Who is the Indian Coordinator?
What are Waterbirds?
Asian Waterbird Census is an annual event (every January) in which volunteers count waterbirds in the wetlands of their country.
This event is coordinated by wetlands International and forms part of global waterbird monitoring programme called the International Waterbird Census (IWC).
In India, the AWC is annually coordinated by the Bombay Natural history Society (BNHS) and Wetlands International.
Waterbirds are defined as species of birds that are ecologically dependent on wetlands. These birds are considered to be an important health indicator of wetlands of a region
