Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............ district of Kerala, India.

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• The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silent valley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.
• The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in .............
• On March 26, 1974, when a group of peasant women in Reni village, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, ............. acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department.
• The Punjabi Suba Movement led by the ............... aimed at creation of a Punjabi-majority state ("subah") in the Punjab region of India in the 1950s.
• The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement was a voluntary land reform movement in India started by.............. in 1951.
• The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.
• In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study of the Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve.
• .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural History Society, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.
• On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
• The father of the Bhoodan (Land Gift) Movement, a freedom fighter and spiritual leader, Vinoba Bhave was born at Gagode in Kolaba district, ...................on September 11, 1895.