Panorama.am

19:40 25/12/2007

RIVER ARAKS IN THE FOCUS OF ATTENTION OF BOTH COUNTRIES

New labor groups created by the initiative of the Governments of Iran
and Armenia to research the pollution of Araks River. According to
Aram Harutunyan, the minister of nature protection, seven labor
meetings were organized with the participation of both countries and
the activities were discussed which should be held next year.

According to him 30 million drams were disposed to assist the
development of the summer trout and other fishes. He said that 11
licenses were given to agricultural fishers and 6 contracts were
signed, besides 17 tickets for amateur fishing and 515 permissions
were prepared.

The minister said that they managed to find environmental violations
and registered 1682 violations. And totally 93.4mln.drams was sent to
the state budget from the taxes of those violations.

In the department of Syunik region one case of violation was
registered: hunting of Bezoarian Goat; this type of goat is registered
in the Red Book. The appropriate punishment was applied to the
hunters.

According to the minister 950 Christmas trees were imported from
abroad, particularly from Germany, Netherlands, and Russia. He said
that not a single case of tree cutting was registered from Armenian
fields.

Source: Panorama.am