Haykuhi Barseghyan, www.ankakh.com
Five a.m... I am hurrying to 19 Khanjyan Street where students from Armenia and Nagorno Kharabakh will head for tree planting in Teghout...
Arriving at the site designed for tree planting. This is an enclosed area on the hill where students should plant young trees for already the fourth time. Let’s have a look at the trees planted in 2008. They are so small as if they had just been planted, and only notices hung on them say these dwarfs are already two years old.
We go up the hill and start a quick tree planting. During one hour 130 students planted 1000 young trees, mainly ash trees. Almost everybody thinks not more than 100 young trees will strike roots, not already speaking about their further growth.
We dragged ourselves to cars in knee-high mud. We went to another hill, where Vallex pledged to conduct tree planting in the territory of 714 ha instead of 357 ha cut down trees in Teghout Forest. It’s hard to believe what the company promises: forests in 10 years. If the same attitude continues here as to students’ tree planting, it will hardly make up 100 ha.
Students were especially disturbed as the development territory includes 15 historical monuments that the company intends to move. “Armenia has many historical-cultural monuments, and if not to move them as needed, development of any business in the country will be impossible,” said Vahram Avagyan, Adviser to Vallex Group Company Chairman.
May 07, 2010