Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award is for individuals or communities from rural areas that have shown extraordinary courage in:

Which of the following plants is used for the purification of water?

Which of the following statement$(s)$ is/are not correct regarding biomagnification?
$I.$ Heavy metals and persistent pesticides pass into the food chain and increase in amount per unit weight of organisms with the rise in trophic level due to their accumulation in fat.
$II.$ Accumulation of zinc can cause thinning of eggshells in birds.
$III.$ $DDT$ accumulation is a major cause of the killing of fish-eating birds.
$IV.$ Biomagnification occurs only in marine food chains.

More than $70\; \%$ of the world's freshwater is contained in

Arrange the following options in ascending order of their $BOD$ value.
$I.$ Sample of highly polluted pond water.
$II.$ Sample from unpolluted pond water.
$III.$ Distilled water.

Explain the importance of the participation of local communities in forest conservation.