Silent Valley

 

 Silent Valley National Park

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          Silent Valley National Park (Malayalam: സൈലന്റ് വാലീ നാഷണല്‍ പാര്‍ക്ക്‌ ), (Core zone: 236.74 square kilometers (91 sq mi)) is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad District in Kerala, South India. The area in this national park was historically explored in 1847 by the botanist Robert Wight, and is associated with Hindu legend.

          The park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats mountain rain forests and tropical moist evergreen forest in India. Contiguous with the proposed Karimpuzha National Park (225 km²) to the north and Mukurthi National Park (78.46 km²) to the north-east, it is the core of the Nilgiri International Biosphere Reserve (1,455.4 km²), and is part of The Western Ghats World Heritage Site, Nilgiri Sub-Cluster (6,000+ km²) THUNDER consideration by UNESCO.

          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.

Crested Serpent Eagle

                          The Crested Serpent Eagle is a medium-sized bird of prey that is found in forested habitats across tropical Asia.

Kunthi Hanging Bridge in Silent Valley

WatchTower

Watch tower At sairandri in Silent valley national park.

                           Indian giant squirrel, OR  Malabar giant squirrel

                                      The Indian giant squirrel, or Malabar giant squirrel, (Ratufa indica) is a large tree squirrel species genus Ratufa native to India. It is a large-bodied diurnal, arboreal, and herbivorous squirrel found in South Asia