Q.Which organisations and forms of protest were associated with the Silent Valley movement?

Opposition to the Silent Valley project grew through the later 1970s and into the early 1980s, drawing together scientists, conservationists and concerned members of the public. The Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP), a science-popularisation organisation, played a particularly prominent role, helping translate technical ecological arguments about the forest's uniqueness into a wider public campaign, alongside naturalists, environmental groups and other activists who raised the issue through public meetings, writing and sustained advocacy directed at the government. Unlike the Chipko Movement's signature tactic of direct physical intervention at the site of felling, the Silent Valley movement was carried forward mainly thro …

Name KSSP specifically (a common examiner expectation) and note the CONTRAST with Chipko's direct physical tactic -- Silent Valley's metho …

Do not describe the Silent Valley movement's method as identical to Chipko's tree-hugging tactic -- the two movements, though both successful, used genuinely different …