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 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)
State forest service (ACF, RFO, forester) examinations
Protected areas of the state, conflict management, anti-poaching, Wildlife (Protection) Act provisions and schedules.
How our questions for State Forest Service spread across the units of Wildlife Management & Protected Areas. Difficulty: 1 easy, 27 medium, 1 hard.
| Protected area planning and management plans | 4 | |
| Habitat management and manipulation | 3 | |
| Protected area categories (IUCN) and networks | 3 | |
| Human-wildlife conflict: causes and mitigation | 3 | |
| Ecotourism: principles, carrying capacity, community benefit | 3 | |
| Wildlife law: national acts and schedules | 3 | |
| Endangered species recovery programmes | 3 | |
| Principles of wildlife management | 2 | |
| Wildlife crime, trade and enforcement (CITES) | 2 | |
| Captive breeding and reintroduction | 2 | |
| Corridors and landscape connectivity | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
A species whose protection also protects many other species in its habitat is called:
D. An umbrella species
Tigers serve as umbrella and flagship species.
The standard Indian guide to protected area management planning was prepared at the WII by:
A. V. B. Sawarkar
V. B. Sawarkar prepared the WII planning guide.
Ecodevelopment in buffer zones aims mainly to:
D. Reduce dependence on the PA
Alternatives in return for conservation support.
Animal underpasses on National Highway 44 connect which tiger reserves?
A. Pench and Kanha
Camera traps show tigers using them.
Tigers were reintroduced to Panna Tiger Reserve beginning in:
C. 2009
Sariska from 2008, Panna from 2009.
In ecotourism, 'leakage' refers to:
B. Spending leaving the area
Benefits flowing to outside operators.
Under the 2022 amendment, Schedule III of the Wildlife (Protection) Act lists:
C. Protected plant species
I and II animals, III plants, IV CITES.
Section 12 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act permits hunting for purposes such as:
C. Research and scientific management
Education, research, scientific management, zoos.
Project Snow Leopard, emphasising community participation in the high Himalaya, began in:
D. 2009
Project Snow Leopard began in 2009.
India's Vulture Action Plan covers the period:
D. 2020-2025
Vulture Action Plan 2020-2025.
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