{"id":583,"date":"2023-06-13T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=583"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:39:00","slug":"q-with-reference-to-an-organization-known-as-birdlife-international-which-of-the-following-statements-is-are-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-with-reference-to-an-organization-known-as-birdlife-international-which-of-the-following-statements-is-are-correct","title":{"rendered":"Q. With reference to an organization known as \u2018BirdLife International\u2019, which of the following statements is\/are correct?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li>It is a Global Partnership of Conservation Organizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>concept of&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2018biodiversity hotspots\u2019&nbsp;<strong>originated from this organization.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It identifies the sites known\/ referred to as \u2018Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select the correct answer using the code given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 and 3 only<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) 1 and 3 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BirdLife International<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BirdLife International is a&nbsp;<strong>global partnership of conservation organizations (NGOs)&nbsp;<\/strong>that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BirdLife International was&nbsp;<strong>founded in 1922<\/strong>&nbsp;as the&nbsp;<strong>International Council for Bird Protection by American ornithologists T. Gilbert Pearson and Jean Theodore Delacour.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The group was renamed International Committee for Bird Preservation in 1928, International Council for Bird Preservation in 1960, and BirdLife International in 1993.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has a&nbsp;<strong>membership of more than 2.5 million people across 116 country&nbsp;<\/strong>partner organizations, including the&nbsp;<strong>Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Wild Bird Society of Japan, the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp; publishes&nbsp;a&nbsp;<strong>quarterly magazine<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>World Birdwatch<\/strong>, which contains recent news and authoritative articles about birds, their habitats, and their conservation around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>official Red List authority for birds<\/strong>, for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It also published important&nbsp;<strong>bird areas (IBA) inventory<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biodiversity Hotspots<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/biodiversity-hotspots-upsc\/\">Biodiversity hotspots<\/a>&nbsp;are defined as regions \u201c<strong>where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing an exceptional loss of habitat\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Biodiversity hotspots<\/strong>&nbsp;are regions with<strong>&nbsp;high species richness<\/strong>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<strong>high degree of endemism<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>concept of biodiversity hotspots&nbsp;<\/strong>was developed by the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Myers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norman Myers<\/a>&nbsp;in 1988<\/strong>&nbsp;when he identified that the tropical forest losing its plants species as well as habitat.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>IUCN prepares \u2018<strong>Red Data Book\u2019<\/strong>. There are&nbsp;<strong>36 areas around the world<\/strong>&nbsp;that are qualified as&nbsp;<strong>Biodiversity hotspots<\/strong>. These hotspots represent&nbsp;<strong>only 2.3% of the total Earth\u2019s land surface<\/strong>, &nbsp;yet more than 50% of the world\u2019s plant species and 42% of all terrestrial vertebrate species are endemic to these areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>According to&nbsp;<strong>Conservation International, a region must fulfill the following two criteria<\/strong>&nbsp;to qualify as a hotspot:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It must have at least&nbsp;<strong>1,500 vascular plants<\/strong>&nbsp;as endemics which are to say,&nbsp;<strong>it must have a high percentage of plant life found nowhere else on the planet<\/strong>. A hotspot, in other words, is irreplaceable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It must have&nbsp;<strong>30% or less of its original natural vegetation<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>It has to have lost at least 70% of its original habitat<\/strong>). In other words,&nbsp;<strong>it must be threatened<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_207582-de .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_207582-de .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_207582-de\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select the correct answer using the code given below. 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