All 65 Biodiversity, Wildlife & Protected Areas questions the Punjab PSC asked between 2015 and 2026, each with a worked answer and the exam it came from. First 10 free to read.
11 of these 65 were set in more than one exam — the Commission reuses this topic, which is the argument for working through it rather than skimming it.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
Gahirmatha beach is in Kendrapara district of Odisha, in the Bhitarkanika region. It is the world's largest rookery for the mass nesting ('arribada') of Olive Ridley turtles. The Rushikulya and Devi river mouths in Odisha are other nesting sites.
In-situ conservation protects species in their natural habitat — biosphere reserves, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and sacred groves. A botanical garden keeps plants outside their natural habitat, so it is an ex-situ method, along with zoos, seed banks and gene banks.
India has parts of four of the world's biodiversity hotspots: the Western Ghats (with Sri Lanka), the Himalaya, Indo-Burma (the North-East) and Sundaland (Nicobar Islands). In the standard listing the Himalayan hotspot is identified with the Eastern Himalaya, which is far richer in endemic species; the Eastern Ghats and the Western Himalaya are not named as hotspots. So only 1 and 3.
Under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) framework, a biosphere reserve has three zones. The core zone is strictly protected. It conserves landscapes, ecosystems, species and genetic variation. The buffer zone around it allows research, monitoring and training. The outer transition zone allows sustainable human activity and settlements. India has 18 biosphere reserves. Of these, 12 are on the UNESCO World Network, starting with Nilgiri in 2000.
The Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary lies on the Ganga between Sultanganj and Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district, Bihar. It is India's only sanctuary for the Gangetic dolphin, our National Aquatic Animal.
Bhitarkanika National Park lies in Kendrapara district of Odisha, in the delta of the Brahmani and Baitarani rivers. It is India's second-largest mangrove ecosystem after the Sundarbans, is known for its saltwater crocodiles, and was designated a Ramsar wetland in 2002. The adjoining Gahirmatha beach is the mass-nesting site of Olive Ridley turtles.
Silviculture is the science of growing, tending and managing forest trees and stands to meet timber, ecological and conservation goals; the word comes from Latin silva (forest). Related terms: limnology deals with lakes, potamology with rivers and horticulture with garden crops.
Gir National Park and Sanctuary is in Gujarat, in the Saurashtra region around Junagadh. It is the only natural home of the Asiatic lion in the world. In 2018 more than 20 lions there died of canine distemper virus infection.
Chandra Taal (Chandratal), a high-altitude lake at about 4,300 m in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, was designated a Ramsar wetland in 2005. Himachal's other Ramsar sites are Renuka and Pong Dam lake.
Bihar holds roughly half of India's Gangetic river dolphins. They live in the Ganga and its tributaries, such as the Gandak and Kosi. The Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary at Bhagalpur is the country's only dolphin sanctuary. The Gangetic dolphin was declared India's National Aquatic Animal in 2009. Patna was later chosen for the National Dolphin Research Centre.
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See the printed book →The Commission set 65 Biodiversity, Wildlife & Protected Areas questions across 63 papers between 2015–2026. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 10 most-asked are on this page free.
Yes. 11 of these 65 were set in more than one exam, which is why they are worth working rather than reading. Each question here carries a badge showing how many sittings asked it.
Here. Every question on this page is a solved MCQ: the four options as printed, the correct answer, and a worked explanation in plain English — not just a letter. The rest of the 65 are in the book, in the same form.
Switch to Attempt mode at the top of the questions. You get one question at a time and it is marked the moment you pick an option, with the reason underneath — the same way the exam feels, on your phone.
The questions are on screen rather than in a downloadable file, so they stay current and correct. The printed book has all 65 of these plus the rest of the General Knowledge section, and every buyer gets the whole thing online as well.
The exams behind these questions, most first. A paper here is a sitting: a question set in two papers of the same sitting counts once.
| Exam | Year | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| PPSC DDSWO | 2026 | 6 |
| District Manager (Group-B) in Punjab State Warehousing Corporation Under the Dep | 2024 | 4 |
| Deputy Director | 2020 | 4 |
| Joint Director | 2020 | 4 |
| Punjab Civil Services (Prelims) — General Studies | 2015 | 4 |
| District Welfare Officer | 2015 | 4 |
| Punjab Civil Services (Prelims) — General Studies | 2025 | 3 |
| Principal, Industrial Training Institute (Women) | 2024 | 3 |
| Naib Tehsildar | 2023 | 3 |
| Research Officer | 2019 | 3 |
| Extra Assistant Conservator of Forests in the the Department of Forest and Wild | 2019 | 3 |
| Legal Assistant | 2019 | 3 |