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...