A rainforest’s saga of survival

G. Prabhakaran The Hindu, December 1, 2009  Twentyfive years after Kerala’s Silent Valley was saved by environmentalists.  Rainforests have been under extreme pressure all across the earth for more than a century now, and they now cover only an estimated 3 per cent of the earth’s land surface. In India, they are now distributed mainly in the Western Ghats and in the northeastern region. Even here, they...

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