UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

The IBCA builds on India’s experience with Project Tiger and other programmes to support big cat conservation worldwide. It aims to share best practices, strengthen anti-poaching efforts, improve habitat connectivity and mobilise funding among participating countries. Big cats are apex predators whose survival indicates healthy ecosystems, and many of them live in transboundary landscapes. International cooperation is therefore crucial to protect them and the livelihoods that depend on nature-based tourism.

Option A:
This option is incorrect because hunting tourism would undermine conservation and contradict the alliance’s stated goals.

Option B:
This option correctly reflects the alliance’s focus on cooperative conservation of big cat species across their global range.

Option C:
Shifting all funding to urban infrastructure would starve conservation of resources and is not the purpose of IBCA.

Option D:
Confining all big cats to zoos ignores the importance of wild ecosystems and is not part of the alliance’s agenda, which stresses in-situ conservation.