ARMENIAN ENVIRONMENTALIST CONCERNED OVER FISH SPECIES
18:46 ~U 19.06.13
The environmentalist Inga Zarafyan is concerned over the destruction
trout and other endemic species of fish by newly constructed
hydro-power plants.
“This is a most complicated system. Fish need fish as much as rivers
need fish,” she told Tert.am.
“We do not control the situation. The water level falls and fish cannot
stay there. As a result, we lose both rivers and the animal world,”
she said.
Scientists raised the problem and demanded prohibition of the
construction of hydro-power plants on Lake Sevan. However, Armenia’s
parliament has to date frozen the issue.
According to Zarafyan, what is being done now is being done in
business interests.
“The financial mechanisms are very effective in favor of particular
HPPs and bureaucrats’ pockets and international organizations,”
Zarafyan said.
Armenian News – Tert.am
From: A. Papazian
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