November 22, 2017 at 18:41 | Biodiversity | Aragatsotn | Gegharkunik | Shirak | Vayots dzor
The reserves of individual fish species are gradually getting reduced in the rivers of Armenia, particularly that's true about the brown trout, Kura barbel and the South Caucasus Spirlin living in the upper reaches
November 22, 2017 at 18:18 | Mining | Lori | Shirak | Tavush
'Armenian Company for Oil and Gas' LLC intends to carry out geological prospecting for oil and natural gas in the first and third conditional blocks of the territory of Armenia – 8775 km2 in Shirak, Lori, Tavush Regions. The area includes a number of specifically protected
November 15, 2017 at 14:49 | Forest | Shirak
Poqr Mantash Community in Shirak Region has found itself in a hard situation, as the the problem of the heating in the community is not solved. ‘Our village is really experiencing problems with the heating
October 31, 2017 at 16:28 | Water | Shirak
A draft governmental resolution has been put into circulation on www.e-draft.am, the adoption of which will enable allotting 21.7 million AMD to RA Nature Protection Ministry for the cleaning of the riverbeds supplying water to Arpi Lake from
October 18, 2017 at 18:14 | Forest | Aragatsotn | Shirak
Tree planting and bioengineering works have been performed in the area of 15 ha in Mets Mantash community, Shirak Region. The works have been implemented in the frames of the Integrated Erosion Control project, which is
September 20, 2017 at 18:43 | Officials | Shirak
On September 19 transboundary events of “Lake Arpi” national park and Javakheti Protected Areas took place within Samtskhe-Javakheti Region, Georgia and RA Syunik Region; the delegation of the RA Ministry of Nature Protection led by Minister Artsvik Minasyan, the delegation of Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
March 15, 2017 at 13:39 | Officials | Ararat | Gegharkunik | Kotayk | Lori | Shirak | Yerevan
“Center for Monitoring of Environmental Impact” of RA Nature Protection Ministry has presented the first data of air basin examination
February 24, 2017 at 14:55 | Officials | Armavir | Shirak | Syunik
The executive is getting read for spring floods. On 23 February the executive reached a decision to allot money to State
January 26, 2017 at 15:03 | Small HPPs, Energy | Shirak
The village of Basen, in Armenia’s Shirak province, is leading the way in terms of coming up with innovative technical solutions to reuse biological waste
October 28, 2016 at 17:25 | SOS | Shirak
We analyzed the red, yellow and white paint. Yellow paint often contains dangerously high levels of lead in excess of 10,000 ppm. Of the 19 yellow colors in 8 (42%) contained lead levels of over 10,000 ppm and 15 red paint in one (7%) contained dangerously high levels of lead in excess of 10,000 ppm.
August 24, 2016 at 17:19 | Officials | Shirak
Shirak Regional Head Hovsep Simonyan is proposing to give the status of specially protected areas to Mantash reservoir with Mantash river drainage basin
August 22, 2016 at 18:57 | Officials | Shirak
After the disaster in Artik the problem of reclaiming derelict mines is focused by the government. During his working visit to Shirak Region RA Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan stated, “There are certain environmental problems
August 18, 2016 at 18:34 | Officials | Aragatsotn | Ararat | Armavir | Kotayk | Lori | Shirak | Syunik | Tavush | Vayots dzor
In line with the governmental resolution dated on 18 August 2016 40 hunting places will operate in 10 regions of Armenia. According to the rationale
July 18, 2016 at 17:17 | Officials | Armavir | Kotayk | Shirak | Syunik | Vayots dzor | Yerevan
Around 1 ha of grass cover has been burnt down in the area called “Aghasafi” in Yeghegnadzor Town
July 15, 2016 at 18:08 | Water | Shirak
There are high concentrations of arsenic in the underground water of Ashotcq and Armavir regions, as the project
July 07, 2016 at 17:38 | Mining | Shirak
Though Artik Town is located under the impact of stone pit dust, atmospheric air monitoring hasn't been carried out here since 2005
July 06, 2016 at 16:24 | SOS | Shirak
Thus case proved that the decisions and programs adopted for the reduction and management of risks in Armenia are inefficient and the local self-government bodies, as a rule, don't take
June 06, 2016 at 15:59 | Mining | Lori | Shirak | Syunik
The water in Armenia is getting more and more polluted with the wastes. The process threatens to become irreversible for the transboundary rivers. At least three transboundary rivers – Debed, Voghji and Araks have
