Indian Forest Service Examination (IFoS) — Forestry optional · India · Union Public Service Commission
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
How our questions for Indian Forest Service Examination spread across the units of Conservation Biology & Forest Genetic Resources. Difficulty: 9 easy, 21 medium, 5 hard.
| Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya Protocol and national biodiversity laws | 8 | |
| Ecosystem services and their conservation | 5 | |
| Environmental impact assessment for forest projects | 4 | |
| Levels of biodiversity: genetic, species, ecosystem | 3 | |
| In situ conservation: protected areas, biosphere reserves, sacred groves | 3 | |
| Ex situ conservation: arboreta, seed banks, clone banks, cryopreservation | 3 | |
| Conservation of forest genetic resources | 3 | |
| Threats: habitat loss, fragmentation, overexploitation, invasive species, climate change | 2 | |
| Island biogeography, metapopulations and minimum viable populations | 2 | |
| IUCN Red List categories and criteria | 2 |
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.
Cryopreservation stores plant material in liquid nitrogen at about:
B. -196 C
Metabolism effectively stops.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in:
B. 2008
In Norway, a backup for crop collections.
India's National Biodiversity Authority is located in:
B. Chennai
The National Biodiversity Authority sits in Chennai.
People's Biodiversity Registers are prepared by:
B. Biodiversity Management Committees
BMCs in local bodies.
The correct order of stages in India's EIA process is:
D. Screen, scope, consult, appraise
Four stages in that order.
Funds for compensatory afforestation are managed under the:
B. CAMPA Act, 2016
The CAMPA Act of 2016 governs these funds.
Compensatory afforestation is criticised as an offset mainly because plantations:
D. Poorly replace forest biodiversity
Poor sites and weak monitoring also limit it.
A fast-growing exotic plantation may provide high carbon storage while supporting:
A. Little native biodiversity
Services and biodiversity must both be considered.
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