If a particular plant species is placed under Schedule VI of The Wildlife Protection Act 1972 what i...........

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If a particular plant species is placed under Schedule VI of The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, what is the implication?

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A licence is required to cultivate that plant.

Such a plant cannot be cultivated under any circumstances.

It is a Genetically Modified crop plant.

Such a plant is invasive and harmful to the ecosystem.

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Explanation:

Schedule VI of WPA 1972 contains the plants, which are prohibited from cultivation and planting. Cultivation of specified plants without licence is prohibited. These plants are as follows

Beddomes’ cycad (Cycas beddomei)
Blue Vanda (Vanda soerulec)
Kuth (Saussurea lappa)
Ladies slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum spp.)
Pitcher plant (Nepenthes khasiana)
Red Vanda (Rananthera inschootiana)

From the Wildlife protection Act: (1) No person shall cultivate a specified plant except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Chief Wild Life Warden or any other officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf: Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent a person, who immediately before the commencement of the Wild Life (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1991 (44 of 1991), was cultivating a specified plant from carrying on such cultivation for a period of six months from such commencement or where he has made an application within that period for the grant of a licence to him, until the licence is granted to him or he is informed in writing that a licence cannot be granted to him.

Hence option 1st is correct.