1. Willow Project was often seen in news, it is related to which of the following?
[A] To explore comet ATLAS
[B] To reduce forest fires in Australia
[C] To explore oil in Alaska
[D] To sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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Correct Answer: C [To explore oil in Alaska]
Notes:- Willow Project is a massive and decades-long oil drilling venture on Alaska’s North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve.
- The National Petroleum Reserve is owned by the federal government.
- It is located about 320 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.
- The area where the project is planned holds up to 600 million barrels of oil.
- The project is yet to be constructed and the oil would take years to reach the market.
2. Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) for the Decade (2022-2031) was adopted recently, it aims to:
[A] To achieve major reform in the international trading system through the introduction of lower trade barriers and revised trade rules.
[B] To introduce a new global pact on climate change by 2025.
[C] To help Least Developed Countries to achieve sustainable development goals.
[D] To support developing nations to achieve water-related global goals and objective as enumerated in SDGs.
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Correct Answer: C [To help Least Developed Countries to achieve sustainable development goals.]
Notes:- The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) concluded with adoption of the ‘Doha Political Declaration’.
- The Sustainable Development Report 2022 flagged that the LDCs are the worst performers on the progress made towards achieving SDGs.
- To know about UN list of Least Developed Country.
- The Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) for the Decade (2022-2031) was agreed upon during the first part of the LDC5 conference at New York in 2022.
- The second part of LDC5 conference held under the theme ‘From Potential to Prosperity’ at Qatar in March, 2023.
- The declaration adopted in the second part of LDC5 focuses on implementing the DPoA.
- The DPoA is the 10-year plan to put the world’s 46 most vulnerable countries back on track to achieving the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
3. Identify the tiger reserve from the statements given below:
- It has a common boundary with Wyanad Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) on the West, Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka) on the North.
- The Moyar River is the natural line of division between this and Bandipur Sanctuary.
- It forms a part of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve.
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
[A] Sathyamangalam
[B] Madumalai
[C] Srivilliputtur Megamalai
[D] Kalakkad – Mundanthurai
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Correct Answer: B [Madumalai]
Notes:- Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) is located in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu.
- It is at the tri-junction of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
- The Tiger Reserve comprises of the wildlife sanctuary and the national park of the same name.
- It forms a part of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve.
- It has a common boundary with Wyanad Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) on the West, Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka) on the North.
- The Moyar River flows downstream into the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and is the natural line of division between Mudumalai and Bandipur Sanctuary.
