The Correct Answer is: c) Pantanal (South America)
Explanation: - The world's largest wetland system is option (c) Pantanal, which is located mostly in Brazil, but also extends into Bolivia and Paraguay.
Option (a) Camargue is a wetland area in southern France, but it is not the largest in the world.
Option (b) Okavango is a delta in Botswana, which is also a large wetland area, but it is not the largest in the world.
Option (d) Everglades is a wetland area in the United States, but it is not as large as the Pantanal wetland in South America.

The Correct Answer is: b) Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Explanation: - Pantanal Wetland is a natural region encompassing the world’s largest tropical wetland area and the world’s largest flooded grasslands.
Location: It is located mostly within Brazil, but it extends into portions of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Vegetation: The vegetation of the Pantanal often referred to as the “Pantanal complex” is a mixture of plant communities– moist tropical Amazonian rainforest plants, semiarid woodland plants, Brazilian Cerrado savanna plants and plants of the Chaco savannas of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Keystone Species: The apple snail is a keystone species in Pantanal’s ecosystem.
Wildlife: Pantanal has the largest concentration of crocodiles in the world, with approximately 10 million caimans. The Pantanal is also home to the biggest parrot on the planet, the hyacinth macaw.
Significance: I​​n 2000, part of this ecoregion, the ‘Pantanal Conservation Area’ representing 1.3% of the Brazilian Pantanal was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
– In the same year, a part of Pantanal Wetland was named as UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

Source: The post is based on the article “Brazilian scientists warn that the Pantanal is at risk of collapse” published in Down To Earth on 8th May 2022.

The Correct Answer is: a) 1 only
Explanation: -The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway running north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, to connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
▪️The canal separates the African continent from Asia.
▪️It provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
▪️It is one of the world’s most heavily used shipping lanes, carrying over 12% of world trade by volume.
▪️The Suez Canal is actually the first canal that directly links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It was opened for navigation in November 1869.
▪️The 150-year-old canal was controlled by British and French interests in its initial years, but was nationalised in 1956 by Egypt. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.