Minimising the human intervention is the best way to preserve
Kerala’s Silent Valley BeyondHeadlines News Desk Silent Valley
is the best assurance that a forest can speak through human
beings.” said the environmentalist MK Prasad. The tourists and
visitors to Silent Valley cannot disagree with him because
Silent Valley gives an unusual experience of silence while in
the midst of nature. It gives one the rarest of the rare
experience of being with nature, becoming one with it. Silent
Valley National Park is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad
District in Kerala. The park is one of the last undisturbed
tracts of South Western Ghats rain forests and tropical moist
evergreen forest in India. It is the core of the Nilgiri
International Biosphere Reserve and is part of The Western Ghats
World Heritage Site. The area is locally known as
“Sairandhrivanam” literally, in Malayalam: Sairandhri’s Forest.
In local Hindu legend, Sairandhri is Draupadi. The Pandavas
during their exile wandered into Kerala and came upon a