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Which of the following statements about biodiversity hot spots is/are correct? 1. Biodiversity hot spots are identified by Conservation International. 2. Biodiversity hot spots are defined according to their vegetation. 3. In India, the Eastern Ghats and Western Himalayas are the biodiversity hot spots. Select the correct answer using the code given below.

Which of the following statements about biodiversity hot spots is/are correct? 1. Biodiversity hot spots are identified by Conservation International. 2. Biodiversity hot spots are defined according to their vegetation. 3. In India, the Eastern Ghats and Western Himalayas are the biodiversity hot spots. Select the correct answer using the code given below. Correct Answer 1 and 2 only

The correct answer is 1 and 2 only.

  • Biodiversity hotspots are identified by Conservation International. Hence Statement 1 is correct.
    • Biodiversity: This term describes the combined diversity at all levels of biological organization.
  • Biodiversity hot spots are not defined only by their vegetation, it has three components. Hence statement 2 is correct.
    • To qualify as a biodiversity hotspot, a region must meet two strict criteria:
    • It must have at least 0.5% or 1,500 vascular plants as endemics — which is to say, it must have a high percentage of plant life found nowhere else on the planet. A hotspot, in other words, is irreplaceable.
    • It must have 30% or less of its original natural vegetation. In other words, it must be threatened.​
  • ​Statement 3 is incorrect because the Eastern Ghats and Western Himalayas are not biodiversity hot spots.
    • ​The biodiversity hotspots of India are the ​Western Ghats and The Eastern Himalayas.

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Consider the following statements regarding biodiversity hotspots: A) Biodiversity hotspots are biogeographic regions where mostly exotic species of plants are found. B) Globally, the total number of biodiversity hotspots has witnessed a decline over the years. C) The Himalayas and the Western Ghats are the only two biodiversity hotspots in India. Which of the statements given above is/are not correct?
Consider the following statements regarding mangrove vegetation and choose the correct answer:
1. True mangrove vegetation occurs in open beach or in sandy or rocky shores of the sea
2. The vegetation rarely develops in wet tropics where the tropical rain forest is the climax vegetation
3. In world, the eastern mangrove is found on the coasts of Indian ocean and the western part of the Pacific ocean
4. Most of the species of mangrove formations are gregarious in habit
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A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given fouralternatives. Teaching about compassion and empathy in schools can help deal with problems of climate change and environmental degradation,” says Barbara Maas, secretary,
Standing Committee for Environment and Conservation, International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). She was in New Delhi to participate in the IBCs governing
council meeting, December 10-11, 2017. “We started an awareness campaign in the year 2005-2006 with H H The Dalai Lama when we learnt that tiger skins were
being traded in China and Tibet. At that time, I was not a Buddhist; I wrote to the Dalai Lama asking him to say that this is harmful and he wrote back to say, “We
will stop this.” He used very strong words during the Kalachakra in 2006, when he said, If he sees people wearing fur and skins, he doesnt feel like living. This sent
huge shock waves in the Himalayan community. Within six months, in Lhasa, people ripped the fur trim of their tubba, the traditional Tibetan dress. The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive,” says Maas who is a conservationist. She has studied the battered foxs behavioral ecology in Serengeti,Africa. She heads the endangered species conservation at the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) International Foundation for Nature, Berlin. “I met Samdhong Rinpoche, The Karmapa, HH the Dalai Lama and Geshe Lhakdor and I thought, if by being a Buddhist, you become like this, I am going for it, “says Maas, who led the IBC initiative for including the Buddhist perspective to the global discourse on climate change by presenting the statement, The Time to Act is Now: a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change, at COP21 in Paris. “It was for the first time in the history of Buddhism that leaders of different sanghas came together to take a stand on anything! The statement lists a couple of important things: the first is that we amass things that we dont need; there is overpopulation; we need to live with contentment and deal with each other and the environment with love and compassion,” elaborates Maas. She is an ardent advocate of a vegan diet because “consuming meat and milk globally contributes more to climate change than all "transport in the world.” Turning vegetarian or vegan usually requires complete change of perspective before one gives up eating their favorite food. What are the Buddhist ways to bringabout this kind of change at the individual level? “To change our behavior, Buddhism is an ideal vehicle; it made me a more contented person,” says Maas, who grewup in Germany, as a sausage chomping, meat-loving individual. She says, “If I can change, so can anybody”. According to the passage, how can studying compassion and empathy in schools help?