Which of the following practices best helps in the conservation and protection of forests?
Planting more trees and protecting existing forests
Forest conservation involves practices that maintain and increase forest cover while safeguarding existing ecosystems from degradation.
Planting more trees (afforestation/reforestation) directly increases forest cover, while protecting existing forests prevents the loss of established ecosystems, biodiversity, and soil stability — together these are the most effective conservation practices.
Burning forests to clear land, large-scale timber logging, and expanding mining in forest areas all actively destroy forest cover and harm the ecosystem, working against conservation.
Therefore, the correct answer is planting more trees and protecting existing forests.
Important Questions from Conservation efforts: India and World
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to ______.
What are the two variables whose relationship is given by the environmental Kuznets curve?
Which of the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) seeks to ‘Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss’?
Which of the following Sustainable Development Goals ensures availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all?
_________, the world’s first sailing boat made entirely from plastic waste, aims to raise people’s awareness of plastic pollution in oceans.
