Silent Valley Rainforest

About Silent Valley Rainforest

Silent Valley National Park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of tropical rainforest in peninsular India, saved from a hydroelectric dam in 1984 after one of India's most celebrated environmental campaigns. The valley owes its haunting silence to an unusual absence of cicadas — typically the dominant sound of tropical forests — creating an atmosphere unlike any other rainforest in India. The lion-tailed macaque, with its magnificent silver mane and jet-black body, is the park's most iconic resident and was the symbol of the conservation movement that saved Silent Valley.