Question – Where has India’s first grass conservation area been established?
(a) Chamba
(b) Ranikhet
(c) Mussoorie
(d) Nainital
Answer—(b)
Related facts—
- India’s first ‘grass conservatory’ spread over an area of two acres has recently(November 2021) inaugurated at Ranikhet in Almora district.
- CAMPA scheme —
- The conservatory was developed in three years by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department, Chief Conservator of Forest (research).
- It has been funded under the Central Government’s CAMPA scheme.
- Significance —
- Around 90 different grass species of significant scientific, ecological, medicinal, and cultural import have been grown in the conservation area.
- It would create awareness about the importance of grass species, promote their conservation, and facilitate research in the field.
- The initiative assumes importance as it has been proved in latest researches that grasslands are more effective in ‘carbon sequestration’ than forest land.