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Global Forest Resources Assessment and the Aravalli Green Wall
Why in News?
Who runs the Global Forest Resources Assessment? FAO's stocktake plus the Aravalli Green Wall, for GS3
Quick scan: FAO publishes the FRA; the Aravalli Green Wall is an afforestation project.
Why it matters: factual, Prelims-type
What you need to know
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The Global Forest Resources Assessment is the periodic worldwide stocktake of forest area, condition and management published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Aravalli Green Wall project is an afforestation initiative to restore the degraded Aravalli landscape and check desertification.
Sources: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
Key facts
Remember these
- The Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) is a periodic worldwide stocktake of forest area, condition and management.
- FRA is published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), headquartered in Rome.
- The Aravalli Green Wall is an afforestation initiative to restore the degraded Aravalli landscape.
- Its aim is to check desertification spreading from the arid west.
- The Aravalli range runs through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi.
Prelims · Mains
How the exam will ask it
Prelims
- The Global Forest Resources Assessment is published periodically by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
- The Global Forest Resources Assessment reports on forest area, condition and management across countries.
- The Aravalli Green Wall project seeks to restore degraded land through afforestation and to check desertification.
- The Aravalli range is among the oldest fold mountain systems in India and spans several north-western states.
Mains
GS3 (Environment): land degradation and desertification are driven by deforestation, mining and urban pressure on fragile ranges like the Aravallis. Afforestation projects such as the Aravalli Green Wall, benchmarked against FAO's FRA data, aim to restore ecological cover and check desertification. The way forward is native-species planting, community participation, curbs on illegal mining and regular monitoring against FRA-style indicators.
Quick recall
Answer before you reveal
Melioidosis, in news after a multicentre study in India, is caused by which bacterium?
- Burkholderia pseudomallei
- Mycobacterium leprae
- Leptospira interrogans
- Vibrio cholerae
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Answer: A — Correct: Burkholderia pseudomallei — Melioidosis is caused by the soil- and water-dwelling bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. • Mycobacterium leprae — wrong: Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy, not melioidosis. • Leptospira interrogans — wrong: Leptospira interrogans causes leptospirosis, a different water-borne disease. • Vibrio cholerae — wrong: Vibrio cholerae causes cholera, not melioidosis.
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