EcoLur
Everybody in Armenia both the government and NGOs celebrated the World Environment Day on June 5. The members of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan headed to clean the Hrazdan Gorge. This is the first case when the country top leaders took part in such an event. The Prime Minister supported “Clean Homeland” Initiative brought forward by “Together” youth movement and announced it a national program. All volunteers joined this event.
On the same day “Armat” Club invited NGOs as “For Sustainable Human Development” Association, the Center for Bird Lovers and EcoLur to discuss environmental issues.
Read below the articles dedicated to the World Environment Day.
NIGHTINGALES AND TITSDISAPPEAR FROM YEREVAN
ArmInfo
The building boom has resulted in disappearance of some species of birds in Yerevan.
Head of the Center of Bird Fanciers Silva Adamyan said at today's press conference that the reduction in green zones, as well as deforestation have resulted in disappearance of nightingales, long-tailed tits and pale sparrows from Yerevan. To note, the pale sparrows are registered in the Red Book. Such predatory birds as kestrels and merlins also have also become the victims of the building boom. Adamyan pointed out that the elite high-rise buildings may oust the birds feeding on insects, among them swallows, which are known to build their nestles in the holes of buildings.
The fashionable high-rise buildings deprive them of this opportunity. "If in the Soviet years there were a total of 158 species of birds in Yerevan and adjacent areas, now their number is a little more than 100",- stressed Adamyan. According to her, the only birds that find heaven in Yerevan are the ravens and magpies. As a result of the increase in urban garbage alongside with reduction in green zones, the number of ravens and madpies is steadily growing.
ECOLOGICAL CRISIS ON THE EARTH KEEPS ON GROWING, SAYS ECOLOGIST
Aysor.am
On the occasion of the World Environment Day (WED), which has been marking in Armenia since June 5 1988, charwoman of the For Strong Development public organisation, an ecologist Karine Danielian, met with reporters.
She said that since the WED has been marking, successful and failed developments became more obvious as well as ecological priorities of the country.
Referring to the UN conference that took place in Bali and focused on climate changes, Karine Danielian said that conference showed that designed and implemented over years programmes didn’t reach their goals while the ecological crisis on the earth keeps on growing. She pointed at the Armenian Strategy of Stable Development, when talked about ecological problems in Armenia. However, laws and programmes on ecology “unfortunately, are being badly implemented” in Armenia, she said.
June 08, 2010