Answers To Quiz Of The Month
This month no one has given all right answers, chattorajd@yahoo.com and navneet1@rediffmail.com have given 8 right answers.
Right Answer toQuiz on Wildlife poaching
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| 1.Wildlife, featured in Appendix 1 of “Convention International Trade on Endangered Species”( CITES), are |
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completely banned for international trade |
are allowed for non-commercial trade |
are banned for internal trade
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| 2.The most heavily traded, wild harvested, Asian fresh water turtle is…………………… |
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Leather back turtle
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Olive Ridley Turtle |
South –East Asian Soft shell turtle
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| 3.Fishermen poach this endangered species for its oil, which is used for catching ‘Bakus’ and ‘Bacha’ fish. This specimen, now in Appendix I of CITES, is…………. |
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River Otters |
Whale shark |
Gangetic Dolphin
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| 4.The crime branch of Delhi Police arrested two people in Shakkarpur, East Delhi in December 2004, who were trying to sell three birds belonging to this endangered species……………….. |
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Great Himalayan Horned Owl |
Eastern Screech Owl |
Northern Hawk Owl
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| 5.The white”macaw”, a native of Australia and Singapore, sells for up to two lacs in India. Police recently caught up with poachers in |
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Jama Masjid , Delhi |
Crawford Market, Mumbai
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INA, Market Delhi
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| 6.The main corridors for illegal trading of wildlife in Orissa are Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The meat and scales of …………….. are sold here illegally |
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Gharials |
Pangolin |
Yellow throated martin
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| 7.”Wildlife Law Enforcement Workshops” are conducted in various Indian Cities by .. |
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WWF(India) |
Wildlife Trust of India |
Wildlife Protection Society of India
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| 8.“ Vanrakshak Program” is conducted by …………..to train forest staff to protect wildlife. |
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Wildlife Trust of India |
Wildlife Protection Society of India |
Bombay Natural History Society
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| 9.Recently the carcass of a clouded leopard (female) was recovered from poachers in |
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Kedar Nath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttaranchal |
Pench Tiger Resrve, Madhya Pradesh |
Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal
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| 10.Rare species of butterflies such as ‘purple emperor’ and ‘meadow wanderer’ reportedly fetch as much as |
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$ 150 apiece |
$ 10 a piece |
$ 275 a piece
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Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ)in India
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