Quiz on history of National Parks of India

1. To the indiscriminate slaughter to which wild animals were subjected to prior to the 1920s, the idea of the …………………..was born.

2. In only two regions-Manas (India & Bhutan) and the Sunderbans ( India & Bangladesh) have more than ………….sq.km set aside for tiger reserves

3. The Bombay Natural History Society was formed in ……….to promote the conservation of wildlife.

4. The local secretary of the united Provinces Branch of the Preservation of the fauna of the Empire Society was

5. The Wildlife Act of 1912 specified

6. The idea that a country should preserve unspoilt and unexploited, its natural grandeur, gave the world its first national park in 1872- this was

7. India`s oldest national park is

8. In its number of mammals threatened with extinction, India ranks

9. The destruction of priceless works of art such as old temples or magnificent buildings would not be tolerated by public opinion, but it is curious that in India of all the places, where animal life is often sacrosanct to an extraordinary degree, the extir

10. India has ------------number of tiger reserves