GLOBAL TROPICAL PRIMARY FOREST COVER CONTINUED DECLINE IN 2022:

Question 1

WRI - WATER RESOURCE INSTITUTION

: WRI is a global research
organizaton that spans more than 50 countries and focuses
on six critcal issues at the intersecton of environment and
development: climate, energy, food, forests, water, and cites
and transport

Question 2

WATER RESOURCE INSTITUTION

It was established in ………..

Answer 2

1982

Question 3

WATER RESOURCE INSTITUTION

HEADQUATERED IN

Answer 3

WASHINGTON DC , US

Question 4

Global Forest Watch (launched
………….) is an open-source web applicaton to monitor global
forests in near real-tme.

Answer 4

2014

Question 5

GFW is an initatve of the …………………….., with
partners including Google, USAID, the University of
Maryland, Esri, Vizzuality and many other academic, nonproft, public, and private organizatons.

Answer 5

WORLD RESOURCE INSTITUTE

Question 6

WRI measures progress on two goals –

Answer 6

ending deforestaton by 2030, and
restoring 350 million hectares (Mha) of lost and degraded forests by 2030 – that represent
multple global forest pledges

Question 7

……………… are the two countries with the most tropical
forest cover, and both registered losses of this resource in 2022

Answer 7

Brazil and the Democratc Republic of Congo

Question 8

United Natons Strategic Plan for Forests in 2030

Answer 8

An ambitous vision for global forests in 2030 was agreed upon at a special session of the
United Natons Forum on Forests in January 2017.

Six Global Forest Goals and 26 associated targets to be met by 2030 are included in the
Strategic Plan

Question 9

Van Mahothsav or
Vanamahothsava, is an annual one-week tree-plantng
festval in India which is celebrated in the frst week of July. WHEN DID IT LAUNCHED ?

Answer 9

The festval was started in 1950 by the Ministry of Agriculture

Question 10

The idea of a tree plantng festval was given by Mohinder
Singh Randhawa who also organized the frst unofcial
festval in…………….

Answer 10

JULY, 1947

Question 11

……. climate acton and ……..
Life on Land have a specifc focus for restoraton of forests

Answer 11

SDG 13 AND SDG 15

Question 12

……………., the Bonn Challenge was launched with a global goal to restore 150 million hectares
of degraded and deforested landscapes by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030

Answer 12

2011