Cities

Taking into consideration that the garden located between Mashtots Avenue and Saryan Street received its preliminary positive assessment, while this program caused public anxiety, “We Are This City’s Owners” Civic Initiative draws your attention to the following:

Landslips turned into a real disaster for Dilijan Town, especially a part of Myasnikyan Street. Newly constructed open amphitheatre, inhabited private houses and cultural-historical museum “Old Dilijan”, a road and other buildings appeared to be in the disaster zone.

A statement was disseminated according to which a bulldozer was eradicating trees at the crossroad Paruyr Sevak and K. Oulnetsi Streets on the spot of a petrol station.

Almost nothing has remained from a small garden located next to food market on Komitas Street.

The Alliance of Public Environmental Organizations is holding a signature collecting under a written letter addressed to Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan that demands to call back the decision on constructing a dolphinarium in the garden named after Komitas.

All the time we speak about raising public participation in decision-making at different levels, but, as a matter of fact, no avail. There are still no appropriate posters on the chief avenue that would provide people with exact information about planned buildings on that particular territory, and about what kind of damage trees will incur as a result of these civil works etc. By the way, the problem with trees is really problematic here.

No sooner had Armenian ecologists expressed discontent about the construction of a dolphinarium in Yerevan than the Municipality of Yerevan started calming people down with their promises to "improve" the territory.

“They didn’t conduct any hearings and have no idea about all this matter. The Institute for Zoology shouldn’t have known about this. Our climate conditions don’t permit to construct a dolphinarium, we need expert assessment for this and expert opinion,” Silva Adamyan said and added, “This is a case of animal exploitation.”

One seal, two sea bears and four dolphins: these animals will soon inhabit the dolphinarium in Yerevan, and its construction will ne finished in two months, as appropriate people assure.

The trees were sent to one of the regions in Kapan next to “Armwatercanal” and were planted too. As a matter of fact, the both fur trees have been cut down as they disturbed the view of the newly renovated regional municipality office.

News.am received a signal alarm from city dwellers that some people have been conducting felling in the pantheon after Komitas. When we arrived in the pantheon, we eye witnessed how several people were loading the truck with newly cut thick and healthy trees. They said it was a sanitary felling.

Syunik Regional Head Suren Khachatryan having no luck of criminal stories is renovating the regional municipality building. Due to his initiative more than a dozen of 14-15-year-old fur trees were pulled out in the front of the regional municipality building.

The situation in Meghri and Agarak Towns, Syunik Region, connected with drinking and irrigation water supply and discharge is worrying and sad.

The Coordinator for the Aarhus Center in Dilijan Ararat Alikhanyan says signatures are being collected to draw authorities’ attention to the activated landslips in the town. Approximately 160 landslip hotbeds exist in Dilijan Town and in different parts of neighboring villages: Bldan, Hovajur, Parz Litch and Haghartsin.

Alaverdi Mayor Artur Nalbandyan has submitted an environmental action plan draft, which must be implemented at the expense of environmental payments made by АСР Company…

The collective lawsuit against Yerevan mayor''s office, which approved a cafe building in the Student''s Park, will be filed on 16 September

The Armenian branch of REC Caucasus is implementing a program on working out an environmental actions plan in Kapan with the financial support of the OSCE. 15,000 Euros for five months are designed for working out the very plan.

Empty bottles, packages, used syringes and condoms…This is not Nubarashen landfill, but a park in the center of Yerevan, at the intersection of Masgtots Avenue and Saryan Street.