April 06, 2011 | Dialog with officials | Yerevan
On April 5 an environmental protest demonstration was held on Freedom Square directed against the policy run by the authorities such as heavy development of mines, forest elimination and exhaustion of water resources. The biggest issue we have today is the absence of responsibility of officials towards environment and natural resources use.
April 06, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
On 5 March the “Heritage” Faction Deputy Anahit Bashkhyan has dispatched a letter to Yerevan Mayor alarming about the launch of civil works on the green zone in Avan Administrative Region, Yerevan.
April 04, 2011 | Officials | Kotayk | Lori | Yerevan
According to the data of automatic devices set up in Yerevan, the atmospheric air samples taken from the territory adjacent to automatic stations, average monthly concentration of nitrogen dioxide exceed maximum permissible concentration by 1,2 times in February 2011
April 04, 2011 | Dialog with officials | Yerevan
“Join to our action. Express your protest and indignation on current environmental situation in our country"
April 01, 2011 | Officials | Yerevan
Yerevan 450 thousand flower seedlings were imported from Holland, which will be distributed among administrative districts after being grown in greenhouses within a month. In parallel with this, on the instruction of Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan 4000 evergreen decorative trees and bushes were brought from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
April 01, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
“Mayor received us, listened to and promised he will try to meet our demands in the frames of opportunities available. We don’t know what it means but still we don’t lose our hope that our authorities will do something for us,”
March 31, 2011 | Officials | Aragatsotn | Ararat | Yerevan
There are more than 1300 organizations in Armenia having bad influence on atmosphere. 522 of these organizations are in Yerevan
March 30, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
On March 28 “Center for Bird Lovers” and “EcoDar” NGOs called upon the Administrative Court of Armenia and demanded to obligate Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia to hold expert assessment of the constructing a dolphinarium in the territory of Park after Komitas.
March 30, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
“At around 5 a.m. several people on “jeep” cars arrives, quickly cut down these trees and drove away. There are people who have eye witnesses all this but they are afraid of speaking, as they might be influential people,”
March 30, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Speakoing about NGOs’ demand to conduct an expert examination Dolphinarium Head Lilit Sahakyan said environmentalists are not competent to set such demands, only Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia is entitled to such a demand, but it didn’t require any expert examination opinion.
March 29, 2011 | Officials | Yerevan
Yerevan Municipality stated that felling at 72 Sarkavag Street for the construction of a shop was illegal.
March 29, 2011 | Biodiversity | Yerevan
The gorge is narrow and has steep slopes. Keeping animals on the steep slopes will lead to land degradation and erosion processes, which extremely negatively affect the whole ecosystem of the gorge. It’s also known keeping a large number of animals in the river beds threatens contaminating territories by dangerous infections.
March 29, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Environmentalist Karine Danielyan has met with Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan. According to Karine Danelyan, Karen Karapetyan has promised that Yerevan green zones wouldn''t be destroyed any more.
March 28, 2011 | Officials | Aragatsotn | Kotayk | Shirak | Yerevan
Governmental bodies don’t pay attention to forest problems which are of strategic significance for Armenia. This is evidenced by the fact that the Government doesn’t finance development of forestry management plans.
March 28, 2011 | Officials | Yerevan
Montreal Park may be established in Yerevan. This question was discussed during the meeting of Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan with the leader of Armenian Diaspora in Canada Bagrat Galstanyan on 25 March.
March 25, 2011 | Officials | Yerevan
pollution has been detected in the soil samples taken from Nubarashen territory, while they haven’t detected any pesticides in maternal milk, air and drinking water.
March 25, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
"Karapetyan said that he would not give the green zones to business. If he keeps his promise, we'll have a mayor to be respected"
March 25, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Last Friday Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia proceeded to the environmental expert examination of 'Nemo' Dolphinarium in Yerevan. The dolphinarium is operating in the capital without appropriate environmental permit for already three months.
