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2010-03-05| CitiesFIRST TO CUT DOWN, THEN TO PLANT
By the order of Yerevan Municipality, an expert committee has been set up to work out a substantiated approach to sanitary felling and care felling. The committee includes representatives of environmental leaders of Yerevan Municipality, OSCE Office Yerevan, the Ministry of Nature Protection of RA and the Aarhus Center in Yerevan, Yerevan State University, and the Institute of Botany of NAS RA. -
2010-03-03| OfficialsIN 2010 125 HA GREEN ZONE TO BE SET UP IN YEREVAN
In the frames of “Green Yerevan” program125 ha of green zone is supposed to set up in Erebouni, Ajapnyak and Shengavit Quarters in Yerevan. -
2010-02-24| CitiesMORBIDITY OF CANCER, MENTAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES INCREASED IN ALAVERDI
The state of the population health in Alaverdi for 2009 significantly deteriorated. Under the report of the Alaverdi Health Center, the center registered 389 cancer patients in 2008, while in 2008 their number makes up 427. -
2010-02-17| Cities125 HA GREEN TERRITORUES TO BE SET UP IN YEREVAN THIS YEAR
In 2010 in the frames of “Green Yerevan” 125 ha of green territories are expected to be set up. -
2010-02-16| CitiesECOLOGIST: SMOG IN YEREVAN TOO
Karine Danielyan: Yerevan may adhere to London and Los Angeles worldwide notorious for their smog.
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2010-02-16| AirYEREVAN MUNICIPALITY OBLIGES TO REDUCE EMISSION OF EXHAUST GASES BY 20%
In May Yerevan will accede to the initiative of the European Commission “Agreement of Mayors”, under which Yerevan Municipality will have a commitment by 2020 to reduce emission of exhaust gases by 20 percent and more. -
2010-02-16| Dialog with officialsHEALTHY MIND SATISFIES UNHEALTHY APPETITE
The problem concerns to the territory of the urban garden, where Jermuk Municipality allocated a land area of 29.547 square meters for the construction of a many-storey hotel at the petition of Vayots Dzor Governor. “Jermuk Nor Kyanq” LLC, the winner of the construction tender, have already cut down 10 poplars and more than 3 dozens of pine trees. -
2010-02-15| CitiesFIRST REPLY TO ALARM SIGNAL FROM TSITSERNAKABERD
EcoLur received the first reply to the Tsitsernakaberd alarm signal from the very source, Tigran Mangasaryan, the publisher of National Geographic Traveler in Armenia (see “Smashed Lamps and Cut down Trees in Tsitsernakaberd”, 2010.02.11). Tigran Mangasaryan writes: -
2010-02-15| CitiesTREES WITHER
Only smoking stubs have remained in the forest section of Tsitsernakaberd on the slope to the River Zangou. These are the remnants of dozens of cut down trees. This territory belongs to the Museum Institute of Genocide. -
2010-02-11| CitiesSMASHED LAMPS AND CUT DOWN TREES IN TSITSERNAKABERD
“I saw the smashed street lamps. When I looked hard, I realized that next to each smashed street lamp there are stumps of newly cut down trees.” This alert was raised by Tigran Mangasaryan
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