Plans for a hydroelectric project that threatened the parks high diversity of wildlife stimulated an environmentalist Social Movement in the 1970s called Save Silent Valley which resulted in cancellation of the project and creation of the park in 1980. The visitors' centre for the park is at Sairandhri.
The park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats montane rain forests and tropical moist evergreen forest in India. Contiguous with the proposed Karimpuzha National Park to the north and Mukurthi National Park to the north-east, it is the core of the Nilgiri International Biosphere Reserve, and is part of The Western Ghats World Heritage Site, Nilgiri Sub-Cluster under consideration by UNESCO.
The another one specialities in this Silent valley is that all the rivers in the kerela had the origin from the silent valley and peoples around silent valley believed that the river flowing from the Silent valley contain medicine because its flowing by touching the ayurvedic plants and the valuable herbs in the forest.And one more thing from the author please dont forget to visit this place with your family.
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| Silent valley ever green forest |
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| Distance view |
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| Rare monkey(Simhavaln korangan) |
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| Beauty of squirrel |
