Q. Consider the following statements:

1. The biological loss is not related with the loss of cultural diversity.
2. The biological loss have increasingly marginalised and impoverished many indigenous communities.

Which of the above is / are correct?
Answer: Only 2
Notes: The destruction of forests and wildlife is not just a biological issue. The biological loss is strongly correlated with the loss of cultural diversity. Such losses have increasingly marginalised and impoverished many indigenous and other forest-dependent communities, who directly depend on various components of the forest and wildlife for food, drink, medicine, culture, spirituality, etc. Within the poor, women are affected more than men.