Botanical Garden as Unique National Wealth: Its Conservation Issues

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In reply to “Botanical Garden Consigned to Oblivion and Lack of Attention” article published on Haynews.am, EcoLur received a letter from the Institute of Botany, which supervises Botanical Garden.  

The letters reflects the opinion of the institute employees what are the certain tasks the institute employees face in regard with the conservation of unique collections gathered within many years, how scientific and organization activities of scientists and specialists are interconnected, what kind of new approaches should be used and what is needed for this. The text of the letter is given below in Armenian. 

In its turn, we would like to mention that the article published on Haynews.am has a reference to the opinion expressed by “EcoLur” NGO President, but this opinion was presented in incomplete and imprecise manner. For example, “Tropical plants in the garden are eliminated, as the greenhouses designed for them are not heated or are in poor conditions.” Such an opinion was not expressed, as we don’t possess any information about the state of greenhouses in the Botanical Garden or whether the plants were eliminated or what kind of plants were eliminated. Maybe the article’s author had other sources of information more suitable for the author’s position, but we are not responsible for them. 

Photos by the Institute of Botany

December 13, 2011 at 13:59