M. K. Prasad (original) (raw)

M. K. Prasad (Malayalam: പ്രൊഫസര്‍ എം.കെ. പ്രസാദ്‌) (1932 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian environmentalist known for his grassroots level activism to protect tropical rainforests in the Indian state of Kerala. In the late 1970s, as a member of Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad, he led the Save Silent Valley movement, to prevent development of a hydroelectric project in the Silent Valley National Park, a project that would have flooded the rainforest.