Directions: Five coherent statements are given below. Rearrange them into a logical sequence and answer the question that follows.

(A) In the post-war era, the state placed primary focus on industrial expansion across regional territories.

(B) A newly passed environmental bill aims to reintroduce forty gray wolves into the national sanctuary by importing them from Canada.

(C) Although uncontrolled poaching severely threatened the apex predator, the loss of contiguous woodland territory significantly accelerated its disappearance.

(D) The objective of this restoration program is to reinstate the historic ecological balance while establishing an interconnected metapopulation of wolves.

(E) This rapid industrial growth required extensive forest clearance, which directly eroded the wolf's natural hunting grounds.

Which of the following will be the second statement after rearrangement?

The correct answer is A.

To find the correct logical order of the given statements, let us analyze each sentence and its connections:
1. Statement (B) acts as the opening sentence because it introduces the primary subject and current context—a newly passed environmental bill to reintroduce gray wolves.
2. Statement (A) logically comes second as it shifts to the historical context explaining the root cause of the wolf population decline, mentioning that the state focused on post-war industrial expansion.
3. Statement (E) follows third because it directly elaborates on statement (A) using the phrase "This rapid industrial growth" to describe the resulting forest clearance.
4. Statement (C) comes fourth, explaining how the loss of woodland territory accelerated the disappearance of the apex predator.
5. Statement (D) concludes the paragraph by highlighting the overall objective of the restoration program mentioned in (B).

Thus, the complete coherent sequence is B – A – E – C – D.
The second statement after rearrangement is (A).