EcoLur
Within recent three days EcoLur received several alarms about cutting down green territories in Yerevan and one statement about tree planting. We rang to Nature Protection Ministry, but nobody took the phone. “What can we do, we are given your phone number, so we phone you.” Two another calls form journalists: “Nork is being cut down…who?”
No calls about tree planting in Yerevan. Just we read a material on one of the websites that Ameriabank had planted 100 young trees and promised to take care of them. No one invited anybody to tree felling. But if this so lawful and is aimed at improving the appearance of our city, as the city authorities assert, why don’t Mayor Gagik Beglaryan who permits to concrete this city, Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan who must preserve green zones, Urban Development Minister Vardan Vardanyan, as well as the owners of newly obtained green territories arrange a presentation of green zone felling. They can make speeched visually on the posters with their own portraits how they improve the appearance of Yerevan and how they act in the frames of the law and follow moral rules, and if they cut down any tree, it’s in favor of everybody.
Photo by Gagik Shamshyan
November 18, 2010