Wildlife sanctuaries, national parks & biodiversity conservation of Rajasthan MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Keoladeo is given as Rajasthan's best-known freshwater bird habitat in Bharatpur. Its fixed recognition chain is specific: it was declared a national park in 1981, designated as a Ramsar wetland in 1981, and later inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage natural site in 1985. The years 1973, 1990, 2010 and 2022 belong to other conservation anchors so they cannot be used for Keoladeo's core recognition sequence.

Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur is described as a managed freshwater wetland famous for migratory and resident birds. They also state that it was declared a national park and designated under Ramsar in 1981, and later inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage natural site in 1985. Sambhar is a saline lake, Tal Chhapar is a blackbuck grassland, and Desert National Park belongs to the arid Great Indian Bustard frame. The combined cues of Bharatpur, freshwater wetland, birds and the 1985 UNESCO recognition point only to Keoladeo National Park.

There are direct habitat cues for these sanctuaries. Tal Chhapar in Churu is the blackbuck grassland site. National Gharial Sanctuary follows the Chambal-side riverine frame, where gharial and other river fauna are important. Mount Abu Sanctuary is in Sirohi and is linked with the state's limited hill vegetation. Kumbhalgarh Sanctuary extends across Rajsamand, Udaipur and Pali and protects an Aravalli dry deciduous landscape. Matching each site to its habitat and district cue gives the sequence 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d.

Ramgarh Vishdhari is identified as a 2022 tiger reserve with corridor value between Ranthambhore and Mukundara, so the first statement is correct. Sariska is also described as a major recovery case: its local tiger population disappeared, and relocation from Ranthambhore began later, so the second statement is correct. The third statement is deliberately too narrow. Corridor thinking, connected habitats, prey, water, low disturbance and conflict management, not merely protection within a fenced national park. Therefore, only the first two statements are correct.

Tiger conservation is treated through corridor thinking, not only through isolated parks. Sariska is the recovery example because relocation from Ranthambhore began in 2008 after its local tigers had disappeared. Ramgarh Vishdhari was notified in 2022 and sits in the Ranthambhore-Mukundara corridor frame. Dholpur-Karauli is the fifth tiger reserve in the State list and extends the eastern map. Mukundara Hills covers the Hadoti belt across Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar and Chittorgarh. All four statements follow that frame.