Quiz on history of National Parks of India

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

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

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

4. The Wildlife Act of 1912 specified

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

6. 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

7. India`s oldest national park is

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

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

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