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GOVERNMENT RELEASES 31 MILLION DRAMS TO UPDATE ARMENIAN RED BOOK.
ARMENPRESS
Aug 26, 2008
YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, ARMENPRESS: The government of Armenia has released
31 million Drams for the nature protection ministry to prepare the
updated version of the Armenian Red Book.
The two-volume edition is about Armenia's fauna. It will be released
by the end of the year.
Tatiana Danielian, head of a ministry department dealing with
bio-diversity and water resources protection issues, told Armenpress
that about 40 specialists of the ministry in cooperation with
colleagues from the Biology and Zoology Institute of the National
Academy of Sciences are doing field researches in Lori, Vayots Dzor,
Tavush, Gegharkunik and Kotayk provinces to learn the condition of
species which are on the brink of extinction and design moves to
ensure their protection and reproduction.
She said as a result of studies the scientists defined a list of 200
species of plants and 10 species of animals to be included in the
Book for the first time.
Tatiana Danielian said also the council of scientists has decided to
organize an effective supervision over the species which are on the
brink of extinction, which she said is mainly due to social-economic
changes which affect bio-diversity.
ARMENPRESS
Aug 26, 2008
YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, ARMENPRESS: The government of Armenia has released
31 million Drams for the nature protection ministry to prepare the
updated version of the Armenian Red Book.
The two-volume edition is about Armenia's fauna. It will be released
by the end of the year.
Tatiana Danielian, head of a ministry department dealing with
bio-diversity and water resources protection issues, told Armenpress
that about 40 specialists of the ministry in cooperation with
colleagues from the Biology and Zoology Institute of the National
Academy of Sciences are doing field researches in Lori, Vayots Dzor,
Tavush, Gegharkunik and Kotayk provinces to learn the condition of
species which are on the brink of extinction and design moves to
ensure their protection and reproduction.
She said as a result of studies the scientists defined a list of 200
species of plants and 10 species of animals to be included in the
Book for the first time.
Tatiana Danielian said also the council of scientists has decided to
organize an effective supervision over the species which are on the
brink of extinction, which she said is mainly due to social-economic
changes which affect bio-diversity.