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Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary :India February 17, 2006

Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary has a strong fauna population with many of the endangered species residing here. Most commonly seen here are elephant, tiger, lion-tailed macaque, gaur, wild pig, panther and sambar. Some other species of wildlife have also been recorded here including 15 species of invertebrates, two fishes, and two amphibians.

Located in the Kundali Hills of the Western Ghats, the Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary holds a valuable reserve of rare plants and herbs. The park is rich in its wildlife, and elephants, lion-tailed macaques and tigers are the most common denizens of this park. A visit to Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary should be considered a lifetime experience, as this is the last representative virgin tract of tropical evergreen forests in India.

Silent Valley National Park is called Sairandhrivanam (the forest in the valley). There are four distinct types of vegetation in this biodiversity intensive area. The rain forest has moist tropical evergreen trees with teak, rosewood, amla, bamboo and semal. Apart from this there are tropical hill forests, temperate forests and grasslands. The wildlife in Silent Valley National Park includes elephants, tigers, leopards, wild boar, sambhar, gaur and the endangered lion-tailed macaque. There are also a number of snake, lizard and amphibian species in the Silent Valley National Park.

Located just 40 km from Mannarkkad in Palakkad district of Kerala, Silent Valley National Park is one of the finest wildlife sanctuaries of South India. The Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is known for its extremely fragile eco-system, as it has a rich preserve of virgin tropical evergreen rain forests teeming with an amazing variety of wildlife. Considered the core of the famous Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, the Silent Valley National Park spreads on an area over 90 sq km. The Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary was declared a national park in 1980 in order to protect its highly fragile eco-system.

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