Minimalist IAS
Environment & ecology

Prelims · Environment & ecology · 23 questions

Protected areas & conservation

Every UPSC Prelims question on this topic, 2016–2026, newest first. Tap an option to check yourself; the answer and explanation open below it.

Protected areas & conservation questions per year: 2016: 1, 2017: 4, 2018: 1, 2019: 2, 2020: 4, 2021: 0, 2022: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 0, 2025: 0, 2026: 1 Asked in 8 of 11 years · most in 2020 (4)

Practising Environment & ecology? Take it as timed sets of 25 →

UPSC syllabus: “General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization.” Sub-topics in the detailed syllabus →

निम्नलिखित राज्यों में से किस एक में पाखुई वन्यजीव अभयारण्य अवस्थित है ?

Read this question in English

In which one of the following States is Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary located?

(a) Arunachal Pradesh · (b) Manipur · (c) Meghalaya · (d) Nagaland

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (a) अरुणाचल प्रदेश

Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary is in the East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. Pakhui and Pakke are two spellings of the same protected area, which is also a tiger reserve.

  • ✓ (a) The National Tiger Conservation Authority places Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. PIB records that it was declared the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary in 2002 and was made a tiger reserve in the same year.
  • ✗ (b) Pakhui is not in Manipur. The reserve lies in Arunachal Pradesh and is contiguous with Assam's Nameri Tiger Reserve.
  • ✗ (c) Pakhui is not in Meghalaya; it is in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
  • ✗ (d) Pakhui is not in Nagaland; it is in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.

Remember · Pakhui (Pakke) Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger Reserve: East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh, next to Assam's Nameri.

Sources

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2018, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). Permalink ·

The Syllabus X-Ray of this topic

1 of its 7 sub-topics is Core

1 Core · 0 High · 2 Steady · 4 Rare

  • Core #23National parks, sanctuaries & tiger reserves · 9 questions

The X-Ray ranks all 928 sub-topics of the UPSC syllabus by what UPSC has asked since 2016. The 60 Prelims Core sub-topics are behind 51% of Prelims questions.

See the whole X-Ray →

The same topic in Mains