Environment and Disaster Management › Protected areas and habitats
हिन्दी — Read in HindiProtected areas, tiger reserves and eco sensitive zones
Protected areas, tiger reserves and eco sensitive zones as places: boundaries, relocation and the clearances given for projects inside them. Prelims has asked which river flows through a park, which tiger reserve has the largest critical tiger habitat, and under which law eco sensitive zones are declared.
Foundation note: Protected areas: the categories
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2020: where the musk deer is found in the wild
- Prelims 2017: the reserve that connects the Eastern and Western Ghats
- Prelims 2013: the river flowing through each named national park, Kaziranga among them
Also filed elsewhere
- The Hanle Dark Sky Reserve · on Chemicals, noise, light and soil pollution
The Hanle Dark Sky Reserve (HDSR) in Ladakh is India's first and only dark sky reserve, notified by Ladakh's administration in December 2022.
- Mining buffers around wetland reserves · on Wetlands and Ramsar sites
A mining buffer is a belt around a protected area inside which mining needs prior approval.
- Pumped storage · on Storage, batteries and electric mobility
A pumped storage project pumps water uphill when power is cheap and releases it through turbines when demand peaks, so it stores energy rather than generating it.
- The Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area · on Forests, grasslands and mountain ecosystems
An Ecologically Sensitive Area is a zone notified under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, which may cover a whole landscape such as the Western Ghats rather than a belt around one park.