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Biodiversity/Biological Diversity Act MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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Practice questions
Q1Match List I with List II with reference to the SOP for notification of threatened species: List I A. National Biodiversity Authority B. Section 38, Biological Diversity Act, 2002 C. Biological Diversity (Access and Benefit Sharing) Regulation D. NBSAP Target 4 List II 1. Legal provision for notifying threatened species 2. Preventing human-induced species extinction 3. Body that issued the SOP 4. 2025 Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
The correct matching is A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2. The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is the body that issued the SOP. Section 38 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 is the legal provision for notifying threatened species. The Biological Diversity (Access and Benefit Sharing) Regulation was framed in 2025. NBSAP Target 4 concerns preventing human-induced species extinction, promoting species recovery and maintaining genetic diversity. Hence option B is correct.
Q2With reference to the notification of threatened species under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, consider the following statements: 1. Section 38 empowers the Central Government, in consultation with the concerned State Government, to notify a species that is on the verge of extinction as a threatened species. 2. As per the recent SOP, the Ministry has so far notified 159 animal species and 173 plant species as threatened. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Statement 1 is correct: Section 38 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 empowers the Central Government, in consultation with the concerned State Government, to notify any species on the verge of extinction (or likely to become extinct in the near future) as a threatened species. Statement 2 is incorrect: the Ministry has so far notified 159 plant species and 173 animal species (not 159 animal and 173 plant) relating to 17 States and 3 UTs. Hence only statement 1 is correct.
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