{"id":76343,"date":"2022-01-20T06:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=76343"},"modified":"2022-01-20T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:10:00","slug":"noted-environmentalist-save-silent-valley-campaigner-m-k-prasad-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/noted-environmentalist-save-silent-valley-campaigner-m-k-prasad-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted environmentalist &#038; \u2018Save Silent Valley\u2019 campaigner M.K. Prasad passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eminent environmentalist and former&nbsp;<strong>Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) president Professor MK Prasad<\/strong>&nbsp;has passed away due to complications of COVID-19. He was 89. He played leadership role in the<strong>&nbsp;\u2018Save Silent Valley\u2019 campaign<\/strong>&nbsp;in the state in 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campaign was considered as the first popular campaign for protecting a forest ecosystem in the State. Prof. Prasad, who had served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Calicut University, was in the forefront of environment protection activities in the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminent environmentalist and former&nbsp;Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) president Professor MK Prasad&nbsp;has passed away due to complications of COVID-19. He was 89. He played leadership role in the&nbsp;\u2018Save Silent Valley\u2019 campaign&nbsp;in the state in 1970s. The campaign was considered as the first popular campaign for protecting a forest ecosystem in the State. Prof. Prasad, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":76347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794],"tags":[1801],"class_list":["post-76343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2022","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76348,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76343\/revisions\/76348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}