![]() They also published a techno-economic and socio-political assessment report on the Silent Valley hydroelectric project. Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) effectively aroused public opinion on the requirement to save Silent Valley. In 1979 the Government of Kerala passed legislation regarding the Silent Valley Protection Area (Protection of Ecological Balance Act of 1979) and issued a notification declaring the exclusion of the hydroelectric project area from the proposed national park. ![]() Also that year the IUCN (International Union of conservation of nature) passed a resolution recommending protection of lion-tailed macaques in Silent Valley and Kalakkad forest areas and the controversy heated up. ![]() ![]() In 1978 the project was approved with the condition that the state government enact legislation ensuring the necessary safeguards. Save Silent Valley was a social movement, started in 1973, aimed at the protection of Silent Valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. 1970s were historic for Indian Forestry in the backdrop of movement on protection of Silent valley and check on deforestation in Himalaya.
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