KBC Offline Quiz: Who prepares Red Data Book in India?

(A) WWF

(B) MABP

(C) IUCN

(D) CITES

Answer: (C) IUCN

The Red Data Book is a public document that is created for recording endangered and rare species of plants, animals, fungi as well as some local subspecies that are present in a particular region.

The Red Data Book helps us in providing complete information for research, studies and also for monitoring the programs on rare and endangered species and their habitats.

This book is mainly created to identify and protect those species which are on the verge of extinction. Currently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature maintains the Red Data Book. IUCN is the world’s most detailed inventory center of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was founded in 1948 with an aim to maintain a complete record of every species that ever lived.

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