Indian Forest Service Examination (IFoS) — Forestry optional · India · Union Public Service Commission
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 Indian Forest Service Examination spread across the units of Wildlife Management & Protected Areas. Difficulty: 0 easy, 30 medium, 8 hard.
| Wildlife law: national acts and schedules | 6 | |
| Endangered species recovery programmes | 6 | |
| Protected area planning and management plans | 5 | |
| Wildlife crime, trade and enforcement (CITES) | 5 | |
| Protected area categories (IUCN) and networks | 4 | |
| Corridors and landscape connectivity | 3 | |
| Captive breeding and reintroduction | 3 | |
| Principles of wildlife management | 2 | |
| Human-wildlife conflict: causes and mitigation | 2 | |
| Ecotourism: principles, carrying capacity, community benefit | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
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.
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.
Animal underpasses on National Highway 44 connect which tiger reserves?
A. Pench and Kanha
Camera traps show tigers using them.
Poorly sited electric fences around one village can:
D. Shift conflict to neighbouring villages
Displacement of conflict is common.
Tigers were reintroduced to Panna Tiger Reserve beginning in:
C. 2009
Sariska from 2008, Panna from 2009.
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.
Under the 2022 amendment, Schedule III of the Wildlife (Protection) Act lists:
C. Protected plant species
I and II animals, III plants, IV CITES.
India hosted the CMS thirteenth conference of parties in 2020 at:
C. Gandhinagar
CMS CoP13, Gandhinagar.
Eco-sensitive zones around protected areas are notified under the:
D. Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
Notified by the environment ministry.
India's Vulture Action Plan covers the period:
D. 2020-2025
Vulture Action Plan 2020-2025.
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