Question

What is the difference between a national park and a biosphere reserve?

Answer 1

Hint: The continued functioning of the earth as a whole necessitates the preservation of biodiversity. Any imbalance caused by human activity will result in the loss of organisms vital to human survival. As a result, wildlife sanctuaries, biosphere reserves, and national parks have been designated as areas where wild plants, livestock, and natural ecosystems can be protected.

Complete answer:
The differences between national park and a biosphere reserve are given in the table below:

National park	Biosphere reserve
A national park is a government-owned, protected area of land that is free of industrialization, human exploitation, and pollution.	A biosphere reserve is a designation given to a region dedicated to protecting biosphere resources and the development of man-environment relations.
Flora, fauna, landscape, historical objects, etc	They are designed to protect a specific area's biodiversity.
Highly constrained, random access to the general public is not allowed.	The following are the sections of a typical biosphere reserve:i)Core (no human activity is there)ii) Buffering (limited human activity is permitted)iii) Region of Manipulation (several human activities can occur in this zone)
Permission is mandatory.	Subject to the biosphere reserve's specific location.
The IUCN(International Union for Conservation of Nature) and its World Commission on Protected Areas have designated it as a Category II protected area.	It has been nominated by national governments and is internationally recognised as part of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MAB) program.

Note: India is home to 18 Biosphere Reserves and 104 national parks. The Hemis National Park in Jammu and Kashmir states is India's largest national park. The Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat is India's largest Biosphere Reserve, while Dibru-Saikhowa in Assam is the country's smallest.