Discussion
Consider the following statements :
Assertion (A) : Tropical rain forests are disappearing fast from developing countries like India.
Reason (R) : No value is attached to these forests because they are poor in biodiversity.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Answer: C
The correct answer is Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
The Assertion is true: tropical rain forests, including India's in the Western Ghats and the north-east, are being cleared and degraded fast for agriculture, plantations, mining and infrastructure.
The Reason is false on both counts. Tropical rain forests are the richest ecosystems on land in biodiversity, holding more than half of all known species, and they are highly valued, for timber, medicines, water regulation and carbon storage. They are lost because short-term economic gains are put ahead of those values, not because they have none. Since the Reason is false, the options that call it true are wrong, and the Assertion is not false either.
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