Environment and Ecology Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 29)

He set 12 August 2026, Hariyali Amavasya, as the date for the network’s first big coordinated plantation drive.

Volunteers planted more than 3.61 lakh saplings in a single hour, using the Miyawaki method.

“Vriksh Mitra” means “tree friend.” It is a nationwide volunteer network led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.

He launched it on 5 June 2024, on World Environment Day, planting a peepal sapling at Buddha Jayanti Park in Delhi.

Sunita Narain, who co-authored Global Warming in an Unequal World with Agarwal, has served as CSE’s Director General since 2000.

Anil Agarwal received the Padma Bhushan in 2000. He had received the Padma Shri in 1986. Down To Earth began in 1992 and Dying Wisdom was published in 1997. Those are real events, but they are not the Padma Bhushan year.

The book argued industrialised nations bore disproportionate responsibility for climate change, calling unequal emissions accounting a form of “environmental colonialism.” It remains cited in climate-equity debates today.

Agarwal founded CSE in 1980, after covering the Chipko movement as a science journalist for the Hindustan Times.

Barman won the 2024 Whitley Gold Award, worth £100,000, to scale the Hargila Army’s work beyond Assam. She had earlier won the UNEP Champions of the Earth award in 2022, and the standard Whitley Award in 2017.

The IUCN moved the Greater Adjutant Stork from Endangered to Near Threatened in December 2023.

Barman organised Panchamrit baby-shower ceremonies for nesting storks and encouraged weaving Hargila motifs into textiles, turning conservation into community pride and income.

Barman paused her doctorate after watching a nesting tree cut down during PhD fieldwork in Kamrup district in 2007.

As Chief Wildlife Warden (1978-83), Sankhala helped establish Ranthambhore, Keoladeo Ghana, and Desert National Parks.

Sankhala convinced Karan Singh, then Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, to impose the export ban.

Sankhala wrote that the tiger’s open eyes ‘haunted me all my life,’ driving his decades of conservation work.

PIB says the Prime Minister announced Project Lion on 15 August 2020, the 74th Independence Day. The 2025 count was 891 lions. 674 is the 2020 figure.

Gaura Devi received little formal recognition during her own lifetime — wider appreciation of her role grew mostly after her death in 1991, a different pattern from more publicly honoured Chipko figures.

After the standoff, the state government imposed a ten-year ban on commercial deforestation in the area.

The women of Reni village elected Gaura Devi head of their Mahila Mangal Dal, a women’s welfare organisation.

About 2,500 trees, marked for commercial felling, were saved by the women’s four-day standoff at Reni.

Gaura Devi led 27 women to Reni village’s forest, embracing trees to block loggers, on 26 March 1974.

The NBWL was created under Section 5A of the Act, added by a 2002 amendment.

As of August 2026, the campaign’s next edition is scheduled to run from 10 to 19 September 2026, and had not yet taken place. Preparations were discussed at a 12 July 2026 high-level Science Ministries coordination meeting.

Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar functions as the coastal and marine extension of the broader Swachh Bharat Mission, and has been explicitly aligned with the Swachhata Hi Seva initiative.

The inaugural 2022 edition ran for 75 days, covering 75 beaches, with roughly 75 volunteers stationed every kilometre of coastline, culminating on International Coastal Cleanup Day.