Biodiversity and its Conservation Test 6

A Great Hornbill by the name of William is the symbol of the Bombay Natural History Society. Hornbill house is the name of their headquarters building.

State Bird of Rajasthan – Great Indian bustard (Godawan).  Godawan mostly found in arid and semi-arid grasslands. The Indian Bustard is usually found singly or in 2 or 3 or sometime more.

William Temple Hornaday, Sc.D.  was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author. He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer and coined the term wildlife and played a key role in the conservation movement in the United States.
So the correct answer is 'Hornaday'.

The Chinkara (Gazella bennettii) is the State Animal of Rajasthan. It is a small gazelle found in various parts of Asia, also known as the Indian Gazelle.

Gir is a beautiful place, located in the Junagadh district of the state of Gujarat. Gir National Park is one of the unique park in India. Total area of Gir forest is about 1412 km2.

The Gir National Park and wildlife sanctuary is located about 60 km south east in the Junagadh district of Gujarat. Park and wildlife sanctuary also known as Sasan Gir or Gir Van. Gir is the only natural habitat of world popular Asiatic Lions.

The biodiversity hotspot concept highlights the coupledness of biodiversity and humanity. The concept, first suggested in 1988 by Norman Myers, arose from growing concern among ecologists and environmentalists about the rapid loss of habitat in areas of high biodiversity and endemism. 

Chilka Lake in Orissa is Asia's biggest internal salt water pond studded with few tiny islands including the most charming Honeymoon Island and the Breakfast Island. 

The India has only 2.4 per cent of the world’s land area, its share of the global species diversity is an impressive 8.1 per cent. That is what makes our country one of the 12 mega diversity countries of the world. Nearly 45,000 species of plants and twice as many of animals have been recorded from India.

The green economy is defined as an economy that aims at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment.

Bannerghatta Butterfly Park is the first butterfly park in India and also a popular tourist place in Bengaluru (Bangalore).

The Silent Valley, apart from being a veritable treasure trove of flora and fauna is also home to one of the oldest and the last stretch of tropical evergreen rainforests. Another peculiarity that makes it unique is the absence of cicadas. These insects that produce an incessant sound characteristic to any forest are absent. Their conspicuous absence makes the forest comparatively silent and hence the name Silent Valley.

More biodiversity on large island than small island at same distance from source, this effect is known as Area Effect.  The species–area relationship or species–area curve describes the relationship between the area of a habitat, or of part of a habitat, and the number of species found within that area. Communities with a higher species richness contain more links between species, which allow the effects of disturbances to be distributed over multiple species, increasing the stability of the community.

The International Day for Biological Diversity is a United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues. It is held on May 22. The International Day for Biological Diversity falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals.

Ex situ conservation is the preservation of components of biological diversity outside their natural habitat. It includes cryopreservation, offsite collections, gene banks and tissue culture. In situ conservation is the preservation of biological diversity in their natural wild condition, usually in the form of biosphere reserves, national parks and wild life sanctuaries.