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May 26, 2024 · In order to defend Silent Valley, an evergreen tropical forest in Kerala, India’s Palakkad district, the Silent Valley Movement was an uprising against the government. It was established in 1973 to prevent a hydroelectric project from flooding the Silent Valley Reserve Forest.
Silent Valley Movement was a movement against the state to protect Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. It was started in 1973 to save the Silent Valley Reserve Forest from being flooded by a hydroelectric project.
Silent Valley movement was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent Valley, an evergreen sub-tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. It was started in 1966 by an NGO led by Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) to save the Silent Valley from being flooded by a hydroelectric project.
Sep 15, 2023 · The Silent Valley Movement was an environmental movement against the state to protect the Silent valley. It was a landmark environmental movement that began in 1973. The protest was in response to the proposed construction of a hydroelectric dam across the Kunthipuzha River.
Long before the Internet era, a remarkable people’s movement saved a pristine moist evergreen forest in Kerala’s Palakkad District from being destroyed by a hydroelectric project.
Feb 13, 2024 · The Silent Valley Movement was a social movement in Kerala, India, that opposed the construction of a hydroelectric power project in the Silent Valley, an evergreen tropical forest. The movement was successful in preventing the construction of the project and ensuring the conservation of the forest as a national park and a biosphere reserve.
Feb 1, 2018 · The people’s movement to prevent the Silent Valley project was the first significant milestone in Indian environmental history that brought national and international attention to the forests and intervention from a prime minister.
Jan 23, 2021 · “ 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.
Aug 4, 2020 · Almost 40 years after India’s first mass mobilisation for an environmental cause had turned Silent Valley as one among the well-protected biodiversity-rich forest regions of the country, Kerala government has decided to declare its buffer zone as a wildlife sanctuary to augment conservation efforts.
Dec 24, 2009 · When the Kerala State Electricity Board announced plans to begin the construction of a 240 MW hydroelectric project over the Kunthipuzha river flowing through the Palakkad and Mallapuram districts in 1976, it triggered a wave of protests across the state.
