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The correct answer is Etawah.

Key Points

• Etawah Lion Safari Park:
  • Etawah Safari Park which was formerly Lion Safari Etawah is a drive-through wildlife safari park in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India, and one of the biggest Safari in Asia with a perimeter of 8 km.
  • The Lion Safari Etawah is being established in an area of 350 hectares.
  • Lion safari and The Lion breeding center are situated on the outskirt of Etawah City.
  • Etawah Safari Park has a lion safari, a deer safari, an antelope safari, a bear safari, and a leopard safari.
  • Along with Safaries, It also has two Vijayanta tanks of the Indian Army along with a steam locomotive at the display.
  • It also has a 4D theatre, which gives you real close-ups with wildlife.

Additional Information

• Etawah Lion Safari was first proposed in 2006.
• The work was started in May 2012.
• The park was designed by the Spanish company Art Urban.
• At first, six lions were migrated to the park in 2014.
• In 2015 a deer safari, antelope safari, bear safari, and leopard safari were added and the park was renamed Etawah Safari Park.
• The deer safari was inaugurated on 6 October 2016 and the remaining safaris, as well as the park itself, was inaugurated on 1 June 2018.
• The park opened to the public on 24 November 2019 without the lion segment.

The correct answer is Mahaveer Swami Wildlife Sanctuary
Key Points

• Mahaveer Swami Wildlife Sanctuary is the smallest wildlife sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh.
• The sanctuary is located in Lalitpur district.
• It covers a relatively small area compared to other sanctuaries.
• Despite its size, it is home to diverse flora and fauna.
• Mahaveer Swami Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area for wildlife conservation.

Additional Information

• Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary: Located in Chitrakoot.
• Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary: Situated in Bahraich.
• Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary: Located in Lakhimpur Kheri.

The correct answer is Unnao.

Key Points

• Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary, renamed in 2015 Shahid Chandra Shekhar Azad Bird Sanctuary.
• It is a bird sanctuary located in Unnao district on the Kanpur-Lucknow highway in Uttar Pradesh, India consisting of a lake and the surrounding environment.
• It is one of the many wetlands of Northern India.
• The sanctuary provides protection for 250 species of migratory birds mostly from CIS countries.
• The sanctuary also houses a deer park, watchtowers, and boats.

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• Ramsar sites are one of the major protected areas in the world.
• There are currently over 2400 Ramsar sites in the world covering an area of 2.5 million sq. kilometers.
• World’s First Ramsar site was identified in 1974, which was the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia.
• The United Kingdom has the world’s largest number of Ramsar sites i.e 175.

Key Points

Elephant Conservation and Care Center’ (ECCC):

• India’s first and only Elephant Conservation and Care Centre was established in 2010.
• It is located in the district of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department.
• The primary objective behind establishing the Centre was to rehabilitate severely abused and exploited captive elephants.
• It is now home to over 20 rescued elephants and is a living breathing conservation education platform to change public perception to support elephant conservation.
• All elephants here were rescued from extreme distress, while some were privately owned and had a cruel history of being used for begging, others spent a lifetime in captivity & confinement as temple elephants or were being coerced to perform in circuses.
• The centre is full of natural vegetation with enough open fields around for their daily walks and several trees available to scratch themselves, thus making it closest to the natural habitat of the elephants.
• Water pools have been provided to the elephants with free access for them to bathe and play in the water, at will.
• The Elephant Conservation and Care Centre and the Elephant Hospital is bordered by the river Yamuna, surrounded by farmland, and a 10-minute walk through a lush green field leads our elephants to the river where they enjoy taking long and relaxing dips!
• The first specialised hydrotherapy pool for elephants, suffering from arthritis, joint pain and foot ailments, has been opened at the bank of Yamuna near the wildlife SOS’ Elephant Conservation and Care Centre in Mathura in June, 2019. 

​Thus, ‘Elephant Conservation and Care Center’ (ECCC) is situated in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is Goa.

Key Points

• The Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary was named after India’s eminent ornithologist, Dr Salim Moizuddin Ali.
• It’s an estuarine mangrove habitat located on the western part of the island Chorao along the Mandovi river in Goa.
• It was declared a reserved area in 1988 by the Forest Department of Goa.
• Dr. Salim Ali was a renowned environmentalist who popularized ornithology in India.
• He is famously known as  the ‘Birdman of India.’

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The correct answer is ​Rajasthan.

Key Points

• Ranthambore National Park is one of the largest and most famous national parks in North India.
• The area of Ranthambore National Park is 392 square kilometres.
• The park is mainly known for its tigers and is one of the best places in India to see majestic predators in its natural habitat.
• Ranthambore National Park is a vast wildlife reserve near the town of Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan, northern India.
• It is a former royal hunting ground and home to tigers, leopards, and marsh crocodiles.

Optional 3 is correct, i.e. Himachal Pradesh.

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The correct answer is Anginda.

Key Points

• Anamudi Peak is located on the border of Kothamangalam Taluka in the Ernakulam district and Devikulam Taluk of Idukki district of Kerala in India.
  • It is the highest peak in the Western Ghats and South India at an altitude of 2,695 meters and a topographic prominence of 2,479 meters.
  • The mountain derives its name from the Malayalam word Anamudi which means Elephant's head in the English language.
  • It is the largest mountain in Kerala and it is also the highest mountain in peninsular India.
  • It is also called "Everest of South India".
• Anginda Peak is the highest peak in Silent Valley National Park, Palakkad.
  • It is a mountain in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats on the border of the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu and Palakkad district of Kerala.
  • It has a height of 2,383 meters.
  • The tributary of Bharathappuzha i.e River kunthipuzha arises from this peak.
• Devimala Peak is situated in the Anamalai Hills of Kerala and it is the highest peak in the Devikulam hill station.
  • It is one of the fourteen highest peaks of the Western Ghats in Devikulam taluka of Idukki district.
• Perumal Peak is located in the Kodaikanal district of Tamilnadu and It is also known as the Perumal Malai Peak. 
  • It has an elevation of a total of 2,440 meters​.

Image of Anginda Peak:

The correct answer is Loktak Lake.

Key Points:

• Keibul Lamjao National Park, the only floating park in the world, is located in the Loktak lake.
• Keibul Lamjao National Park is the only floating National Park in the world.
• It is the home of the brow-antlered deer which is one of the most endangered deer in the world.
• It is located in the Bishnupur district of Manipur in India.
• It is an integral part of Loktak Lake.

Additional Information

The correct answer is Kerala.

Key Points

• Silent Valley National Park:
  • Located in the Palakkad district in the Nilgiri Mountains of Kerala.
  • It is at the heart of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and consists of areas of South Western Ghats rain forests and tropical wet evergreen jungle.
  • River Kunthi passes through it.
  • Silent Valley Park is known for many highly endangered species such as lion-tailed macaque, tiger, gaur, leopard, wild boar, panther, Indian Civet, and Sambhar. 

​Additional Information

The correct answer is Himachal Pradesh.

Key Points:

• Pin Valley National Park is a National park of India located within the Lahaul and Spiti district, in the state of Himachal Pradesh, in far Northern India.
• With its snow laden unexplored higher reaches and slopes, the Park forms a natural habitat for a number of endangered animals including the snow leopard and Siberian ibex.

Key Points

Mistake Points 

• Pench National Park is on the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
• So Pench National Park(Jawahar Lal Nehru) is in Maharashtra and Pench(Priyardishini) National Park is in Madhya Pradesh.
• So if it simply asks Pench then the Answer will be Madhya Pradesh only, but if it's written in the bracket with a description then choose accordingly.

The correct answer is Namdapha National Park.

Key Points

• Namdapha National Park is the largest protected area in the Eastern Himalayan sub-region.
• It is a wide protected area of 1,985 km² in Arunachal Pradesh of Northeast India.
• The national park harbours the northernmost lowland evergreen rainforests in the world at 27°N latitude.
• Even harbours vast dipterocarp forests, covering the northwestern parts of the eco-region rainforests Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin.
• It is the fourth largest national park in India.

Additional Information

The correct answer is West Bengal.

• The Buxa Tiger Reserve is located in West Bengal.

Key Points

• Buxa Tiger Reserve was established in 1983.
• It was the then 15^th tiger reserve in India.
• Animals found in Buxa Tiger Reserve Indian leopard, Bengal tiger, clouded leopard, giant squirrel, gaur, chital, and wild boar.

• National Park/Wildlife sanctuary in West Bengal are West Sunderban Wildlife Sanctuary, Gorumara National Park, Neora Valley National Park, Singalila National Park, Sunderban National Park (STR) Tiger Reserve, and Jaldapara National Park.

Additional Information

Note: Recently Madhya Pradesh’s Panna National Park has been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

• Also known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park, the Nagarhole National Park is located in the Mysore and Kodagu districts of Karnataka.
• Along with the Bandipur Tiger Reserve, the Nagarhole National Park forms one of India's primary Tiger Reserves.
• The park was set up as a wildlife sanctuary in 1955 and upgraded to a national park in 1988.
• It spreads over an area of 642.39 km² and is a part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
• In addition to tigers, the park is also inhabited by Indian leopard, striped hyena, chital, sam, gaur, wild boar, sambar deer, etc.

The correct answer is Arunachal Pradesh.

Key Points

• The Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve is located in Changlang District, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, close to the international boundary between India and Myanmar (Burma).
• The government designated it as a tiger reserve in 1983.

Additional Information

• In India, marine protected area concerned with coral reefs, mangroves, lagoons, estuaries, sea grass.
  • Gulf of Mannar National Park, Tamil Nadu.
  • Gulf of Kutch Marine National Park, Gujarat.
  • Gulf of Kutch Marine Sanctuary, Gujarat.
  • Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Andaman & Nicobar.
  • Gahirmatha Sanctuary, Odisha.