Silent vally
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Silent Valley National Park is a beautiful representation of the last remaining rain forest of Kerala.Historically it's a paradigm of people's movement to protect the forest.Silent Valley was declared as National Park in 1984 and formally inaugurated in the year 1985. Initially there was only89.52 sq.km.area under the Division which forms the core zone of the National Park.In 2007, an area of 148 sq.km.was added to this Division as buffer zone.In 1914, Silent Valley forests were declared as Reserved Forest.Till 1921, Silent Valley was part of South Malabar Forest Division with headquarters at Nilambur.During 1921, it came under control of Palakkad Forest Division and managed so until 1988.Shielded by the Nilgiri Plateau to the North and the Mannarkad Plains to the South, the Silent Valley was named a national park in 1984. Located in the Northeast corner of Palakkad district, the valley constitutes the centerpiece of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and was named a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2012. A few centuries ago, before humans reached the Silent Valley, this reserve of tropical rainforests stood undisturbed and tranquil like a beautiful hidden diamond.Its silence was emphasized by the missing cicadas that usually characterized rainforests.Yet animals are plenty and the vast diversity in flora and fauna is breathtaking.
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