Question 1527
Which of the following matches are correctly matched here? 1. Bannerghatta National Park - Tamilnadu 2. Campbell Bay National Park - Andaman island 3. Dibru-Saikhowa National Park - Assam Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Answer
3 only
Why?
Bannerghatta National Park: ● It is a national park in India, located near Bangalore, Karnataka. ● It was founded in 1970 and declared as a national park in 1974. ● In 2002, a small portion of the park became a zoological garden, the Bannerghatta Biological Park. Within the national park area are six rural villages enclosed within three large enclosures for sheep and cattle farming. Campbell Bay National Park ● It is a national park in India, located on the island of Great Nicobar, the largest of the Nicobar Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean some 190 km to the north of Sumatra. ● It was gazetted as a national park of India in 1992, and forms part of the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve. ● The park has an approximate area of some 426 km², and is separated from the smaller Galathea National Park by a 12-km wide forest buffer zone. Dibru-Saikhowa National Park: ● It is a national park in Assam, India, located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts. ● It was designated a Biosphere Reserve in July 1997 . ● The park is bounded by the Brahmaputra and Lohit Rivers in the north and Dibru river in the south. ● It mainly consists of moist mixed semi-evergreen forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, canebrakes and grasslands. ● It is the largest salix swamp forest in north-eastern India , with a tropical monsoon climate with a hot and wet summer and cool and usually dry winter. ● It is a haven for many endangered species and rich in fish diversity. ● In December 2020, Gauhati high court stayed a permission given to Oil India Limited for hydrocarbon exploration at seven locations inside the protected area.
