LEVEL OF AFFORESTATION OF ARMENIA LESS BY 1-2% THAN PREVIOUS INDEX
Noyan Tapan
Mar 07 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN. On March 6, the problems of the Yerevan
air, water pollution, destruction of green belts, responsibility for
the damage caused to the ecological state, the measures and prospects
directed to the correction of the created state were discussed
at the enlarged parliamentary hearings on the theme “Yerevan City
Surroundings Problems”.
According to Vardan Ayvazian, the RA Minister of Nature Protection,
the level of the air pollution is especially higher in the center of
the Yerevan and in the communities of Arabkir, the main cause of which
are the exhaustions of transport. From 2006 it is forbiden by the law
to import cars without neutralizators, as well as the exploitation
of cars without the implementation of the demand of obligatory annual
measurings. Besides that, appropriate equipments are bought in order
to control the quality of the importing fuel. In order to control
the ecological state of the capital it is also envisaged to maintain
a movable expert laboratory in 2006.
According to V.Ayvazian, the level of the afforestation of the
territory of Armenia never surpassed the 11.2%, and today it is less
than it by 1-2%. The level of the afforestation of the territory of
Yerevan never surpassed the 2%. According to the new main plan of
the capital, in the forthcoming 15 years it is envisaged to add the
surface of the green territory falling to one person.
According to the Minister, the process of the collection of scraps,
sorting of garbage is also problematic.