ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Subject 59 Forestry · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersManaging wildlife populations, habitats and protected areas, resolving human-wildlife conflict, enforcing wildlife law and running ecotourism. Animal health, capture drugs and wildlife disease are covered in the Veterinary track (wildlife-zoo-medicine).
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 10 (man-animal conflict) and Unit 11 (ecotourism); IFoS Forestry Paper II Section B (wildlife and legislation); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (wildlife management)
How our questions for ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF spread across the units of Wildlife Management & Protected Areas. Difficulty: 1 easy, 18 medium, 19 hard.
| Ecotourism: principles, carrying capacity, community benefit | 7 | |
| Human-wildlife conflict: causes and mitigation | 5 | |
| Captive breeding and reintroduction | 5 | |
| Protected area planning and management plans | 4 | |
| Principles of wildlife management | 3 | |
| Protected area categories (IUCN) and networks | 3 | |
| Corridors and landscape connectivity | 3 | |
| Habitat management and manipulation | 2 | |
| Wildlife crime, trade and enforcement (CITES) | 2 | |
| Wildlife law: national acts and schedules | 2 | |
| Endangered species recovery programmes | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Tiger reserves must have a Tiger Conservation Plan that covers:
B. Both the core and the buffer
Required under the tiger chapter of the WPA.
A limitation of management effectiveness scores is that they:
A. Rely partly on expert judgement
Scores partly reflect expert judgement, so interpret with care.
Poorly sited electric fences around one village can:
D. Shift conflict to neighbouring villages
Displacement of conflict is common.
Human-wildlife conflict is driven partly by social factors such as:
C. Trust in forest staff
Tolerance depends on compensation, dependence and trust.
Wildlife forensics laboratories mainly help enforcement by:
B. Identifying species from seized parts
Morphology and DNA link evidence to species and individuals.
A key requirement before any reintroduction under IUCN guidelines is:
D. Removing the cause of decline
Otherwise the new population will decline again.
PCC is 4,000 visits/day. Correction factors of 0.2 and 0.1 apply. Real carrying capacity is:
D. 2,880 visits/day
4,000 x 0.8 x 0.9 = 2,880. Subtracting 0.3 at once gives 2,800.
In ecotourism, 'leakage' refers to:
B. Spending leaving the area
Benefits flowing to outside operators.
Why do LAC frameworks focus on acceptable conditions rather than a single carrying capacity number?
A. Numbers give false precision
Monitoring indicators against standards is more robust.
Eco-sensitive zones around protected areas are notified under the:
D. Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
Notified by the environment ministry.
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