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Blue fuel "damages" Armenian forests
arminfo
Thursday, May 5, 15:41
Raising of the gas tariffs has automatically increased the volume of
illegal forest devastation, director of Armles, Martun Matevosyan,
said at today's press-conference.
He also added that residents of the villages near forests often heat
their houses with firewood.
"The forest devastation is more a social problem as 90% of the
illegally cut trees are used for firewood", - Matevosyan said.
At the same, as he said, it is wrong to say that Armenia loses the
wood territories, as specialists noticed much accretion of forest.
According to the data of NASA, there is a tendency of forests
reduction in Armenia, and by 2020 Armenia may remain without the
forest territories. According to ecologists, the illegal forest
devastation was the reason of decrease of forests over the last years
in Armenia.
As the head of NGO "Ecolur" Inga Zarafyan said, this process may be
stopped only in case if forest devastation is banned for a certain
period of time and dotations are given to residents of the nearby
villages, as they are often forces to use firewood because of very
high gas tariffs.
From: A. Papazian
arminfo
Thursday, May 5, 15:41
Raising of the gas tariffs has automatically increased the volume of
illegal forest devastation, director of Armles, Martun Matevosyan,
said at today's press-conference.
He also added that residents of the villages near forests often heat
their houses with firewood.
"The forest devastation is more a social problem as 90% of the
illegally cut trees are used for firewood", - Matevosyan said.
At the same, as he said, it is wrong to say that Armenia loses the
wood territories, as specialists noticed much accretion of forest.
According to the data of NASA, there is a tendency of forests
reduction in Armenia, and by 2020 Armenia may remain without the
forest territories. According to ecologists, the illegal forest
devastation was the reason of decrease of forests over the last years
in Armenia.
As the head of NGO "Ecolur" Inga Zarafyan said, this process may be
stopped only in case if forest devastation is banned for a certain
period of time and dotations are given to residents of the nearby
villages, as they are often forces to use firewood because of very
high gas tariffs.
From: A. Papazian