Silent Valley                                

          

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Context: M.K. Prasad, noted ecologist and ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner, passes away.

 

About silent valley:

• This region is known for its biodiversity and is located in Kerala, India.
• Silent Valley region is locally known as
• In 1914 the forest of the Silent Valley area was declared a reserve forest.
• Save Silent Valley movement: Plans for a hydroelectric project that threatened the park’s rich and unique wildlife stimulated an environmentalist social movement in the 1970s, which resulted in cancellation of the project.
• It was declared as a National Park in the year of 1984.

 

Silent Valley National Park

• The park is located in the Nilgiri hills. It is situated in the core of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
• It is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats mountain rain forest and tropical moist evergreen forest in India.
• Silent Valley is home to the largest population of Lion tailed macaques, an endangered of primate.
• River Kunthi descends from the Nilgiri hills and traverses the entire length of the valley.

 

Other protected areas in Kerala:

                              

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