Silent Valley National Park is a national park in Kerala, India, in the Nilgiri hills, with a core area of about 90 square kilometers surrounded by a 148 square kilometer buffer zone spanning parts of Palakkad and Malappuram districts in Kerala and the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. First explored by the botanist Robert Wight in 1847, it preserves one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats mountain rainforest and tropical moist evergreen forest, and its establishment in 1984 followed the Save Silent Valley environmental movement of the 1970s, which stopped a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Kunthipuzha River. It forms part of both the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and the Western Ghats World Heritage Site.
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Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 International DesignationUNESCO Biosphere Reserve 1 Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyDepartment of Forests and Wildlife (Kerala) 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Indian state forest department 1 Sources
1. Silent Valley National Park (Wikipedia)
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Silent Valley National Park is a national park in Kerala, India.
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Department of Forests and Wildlife (Kerala)
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Contiguous with the proposed Karimpuzha National Park (225 km2 (87 sq mi)) to the north and Mukurthi National Park (78.46 km2) to the north-east, it is the core of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (1,455.4 km2), and is part of the Nilgiri Sub-Cluster (6,000+ km2), Western Ghats World Heritage Site, recognised by UNESCO in 2007.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Silent Valley National Park
- Wikidata Q176792, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
- Wikidata Q176792 P571 inception
- Part Of: India, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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