SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 15 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 22 of 100

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Which national park recorded successful reintroduction of the Great Indian Bustard into the wild in 2025?

(a)Sariska National Park
(b)Kuno National Park
(c)Desert National Park
(d)Panna Tiger Reserve

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Desert National Park lies in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer and Barmer districts and holds one of the remaining wild populations of the Great Indian Bustard.

The bird's conservation breeding centres at Sam and Ramdevra are also in Jaisalmer district, in a programme led by Wildlife Institute of India scientists. Sariska, Kuno and Panna are known for tiger and cheetah reintroductions, not the bustard → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Sariska National Park — Sariska is a Rajasthan tiger reserve known for a tiger reintroduction: after its tigers vanished, the first tiger was flown in from Ranthambhore on 28 June 2008.
(b)
Kuno National Park — Kuno in Madhya Pradesh is where India reintroduced the cheetah: eight cheetahs from Namibia arrived there on 17 September 2022.
(d)
Panna Tiger Reserve — Panna in Madhya Pradesh lost its tigers to poaching and was restocked with relocated tigers, starting with two tigresses in March 2009.

Concept

The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) is a large grassland bird, listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2011. Rajasthan launched Project Great Indian Bustard on World Environment Day 2013.

With few birds left in the wild, India has turned to conservation breeding at the Jaisalmer centres, and a chick hatched after artificial insemination was reported in 2024.

We could not confirm the stem's premise. The 2025 sources we checked report chicks hatched at the Sam and Ramdevra breeding centres, not a release into the wild. Desert National Park is where the bird's wild population and breeding programme sit, which is why the key takes it.

Key facts

Desert National Park covers about 3,162 km² in Jaisalmer and Barmer districts of Rajasthan.
The Great Indian Bustard has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2011.
Its conservation breeding centres are at Sam and Ramdevra in Jaisalmer district.
Eight cheetahs from Namibia arrived at Kuno National Park on 17 September 2022.

Study next

Great Indian Bustard habitat in Kutch, GujaratSpecies reintroductions in India: tigers to Sariska and Panna, cheetahs to KunoIUCN Red List categories: Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable

Common traps

Matching "reintroduction" to Kuno because of the cheetah project: the bird named in the stem decides the park.
Treating the stem's 2025 release as settled fact: the 2025 sources we checked describe hatchings in the breeding centres.

Here a species is matched to its protected area through a conservation headline. National park geography is also asked at 18 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.22 (park-state pairs, keyed Similipal-Odisha).

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