State Forest Service — Assistant Conservator of Forests (state PSC exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions (e.g. TNPSC, MPPSC, UPPSC, HPPSC, KPSC, MPSC)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersWhy forest biodiversity matters, what threatens it, and how genes, species and ecosystems are conserved in situ and ex situ, under national law and international conventions. The Sustainability track's biodiversity-conservation is the general version; this subject focuses on forest species and forest genetic resources.
In the exams: IFoS Forestry Paper I Section B (environmental conservation and biodiversity); ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 11 (in situ and ex situ conservation, sacred groves); GATE EY Section 5
ICAR AIEEA-PG Forestry and state forest service examinations
Biodiversity levels, hotspots, threats, conservation methods and conventions.
How our questions for State Forest Service spread across the units of Conservation Biology & Forest Genetic Resources. Difficulty: 5 easy, 14 medium, 0 hard.
| In situ conservation: protected areas, biosphere reserves, sacred groves | 5 | |
| Environmental impact assessment for forest projects | 4 | |
| Ex situ conservation: arboreta, seed banks, clone banks, cryopreservation | 2 | |
| Conservation of forest genetic resources | 2 | |
| Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya Protocol and national biodiversity laws | 2 | |
| Levels of biodiversity: genetic, species, ecosystem | 1 | |
| Threats: habitat loss, fragmentation, overexploitation, invasive species, climate change | 1 | |
| IUCN Red List categories and criteria | 1 | |
| Ecosystem services and their conservation | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
India's share of the world's recorded species is roughly:
B. 7 to 8 percent
On about 2.4% of the world's land.
The Global Tree Assessment (2021) found that the share of tree species threatened with extinction is about:
C. 30 percent
About a third of nearly 60,000 species.
The first biodiversity heritage site notified under the Biological Diversity Act, in 2007, was:
D. Nallur Tamarind Grove
Nallur Tamarind Grove in Karnataka was notified in 2007.
The deliberate movement of warm-adapted genotypes into existing populations is called:
A. Assisted gene flow
A climate adaptation measure under study.
People's Biodiversity Registers are prepared by:
B. Biodiversity Management Committees
BMCs in local bodies.
Funds for compensatory afforestation are managed under the:
B. CAMPA Act, 2016
The CAMPA Act of 2016 governs these funds.
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