Silent Valley National Park, Palakkad
The Silent Valley National Park with a territory of 237. 52 sq km is situated in the Northeastern corner of Palakkad region. It rises unexpectedly to the Nilgiri Plateau in the North and neglects the fields of Mannarkkad in the South. To a great degree delicate, a one of a kind protect of tropical evergreen rain timberlands which is a veritable nursery of widely varied vegetation, some of which are discovered no place else on the planet.
The center of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is the Silent Valley National Park. In spite of its name, the Silent Valley (the noise of Cicadas is obviously truant here) is a rich storage facility of biodiversity. It is a genuine Garden of Eden for understudies of life sciences, proficient researchers and field scholars.
Maybe, no place else would one be able to discover such an agent gathering of Western Ghats biodiversity – more than 1000 types of blooming plants which incorporate around 110 types of orchids, more than 34 types of vertebrates, around 200 types of butterflies, 400 types of moths, 128 types of scarabs of which 10 are new to science, around 150 types of flying creatures including all the 16 endemic winged animals of southern India.
The River Kunthi drops from the Nilgiri slopes, from an elevation of 2000 m above ocean level, and crosses the whole length of the valley and surges down to the fields through the profound crevasse. The River Kunthi never turns darker and is dependably completely clear, perpetual and wild.
The evapo-transpiration from these timberlands is considerably higher than from whatever other surface. This cools the air, helps simple buildup of water vapor, causing summer rains in the fields.
