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 | Cities | Yerevan
Yerevan Municipality stated that felling at 72 Sarkavag Street for the construction of a shop was illegal.
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 | Cities | 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 | 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.
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 24, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
If we continue with these rates, the issue of green zone preservation will eliminate in Yerevan very soon, as no green zones will exist any longer. We can see it already today, when Yerevan residents are fighting not for green zones, but for separate trees, and it’s not a success in many cases.
March 24, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Early in the morning on Thursday, the unknown cut 16 young trees in the area near the Yerevan Dramatic Theater and the building in 28 St. Issahakyan. The building administrator says the trees were cut approximately at 4:00am.
March 22, 2011 | Cities | Lori | Syunik | Yerevan
The findings are as follows: not only the soil in this region, but also fruit, vegetables and greens in most cases are polluted with heavy metals, including that of first-class hazard. Tomatoes, greens, raspberry and fig are particularly vulnerable to negative exposure which you can find in Yerevan markets.
March 22, 2011 | Cities
“The Biodiversity Park will be mainly concentrated on South-Caucasian animal specimen with its small substructures, for example the southern school of the zoological park, designed for students and teachers,”
March 21, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Trees on both sides of Zaqyan Street (from Khorenatsi to Grigor Lusavorich Street) have been pulled out with roots. It’s the second day “Kentron Greening” CJSC workers have diligently been doing their job, i.e. pulling out tree roots and trying to bring pavements in order.
March 21, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
“We Are This City’s Owners” Civic Initiative has sent an open letter to RA Nature Protection Ministry Aram Harutyunyan demanding to recognize the public hearings minutes held at Garden of Dragons null and void.
March 18, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Armenian Administrative Court has rejected the lawsuit filed by “Center for Bird Lovers” and “EcoDar” NGOs against Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia
March 18, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
According to Ruben Khachatryan, as we don’t have any document in the legal field how these dolphins were imported and how many they were, therefore if one of these dolphons get died, it won’t be recorded anywhere. “The dead dolphin is supposed to be replaced with a new one, as after their import into Armenia no one can follow, even if they want to.”
March 17, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
“Chlorine in water is in small amounts, and I think it doesn’t impact anything,’ outlines Dolphinarium director L. Sahakyan. Last year the Municipality told environmentalists “water designed for dolphins most resembles seawater by its composition.”
March 16, 2011 | Cities | Kotayk
Children will be especially endangered, as at less than 2 kilometers from the deposit there are three schools. According to assessments of experts, the development of the deposit will result in pollution of not only irrigation water, but also drinking water, as there are several springs near the hill of the deposit, and hundreds of people use these springs.
March 16, 2011 | Cities | Yerevan
Arne Guz assured that their company is ready for mutually beneficial cooperation with the municipality, particularly, in the fields of urban development, rubbish removal, hard wastes management, ecology and in a number of other fields.
