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NO SILENCE PRAISES ACTIVISTS PROTECTING TRCKHKAN WATERFALL
Tert.am
28.10.11
The Armenian youth initiative No Silence has given the man of month
title to a group of young people who launched an active campaign for
the protection of Trchkan waterfall.
No Silence has this time chosen a collective image to praise the
activists' efforts towards protecting imposing site of nature in
Armenia's Shirak region.
The activists were protesting against the Nature Protection Ministry's
decision to build a hydropower plant on the territory. Based on the
Government's 2004 decision to declare the site a water monument,
they found the move illegal.
"To prevent one of Armenia's most spectacular waterfalls from turning
into a hydropower plant hundreds of young people with completely
different social backgrounds, education and individual characteristics
- people who had never dealt with nature protection in the past -
came to know each other, joining the environmentalists' campaign. What
unites them is the impermissevenes in Armenia, which entails serious
losses for our citizens, as well as the wonders of nature. Ignoring
the cold weather in Shirak], the young activists have set up an
encampment in the vicinities of Trchkan, protecting the waterfall
from the threat of eternal silence," reads the statement of No Silence.
Tert.am
28.10.11
The Armenian youth initiative No Silence has given the man of month
title to a group of young people who launched an active campaign for
the protection of Trchkan waterfall.
No Silence has this time chosen a collective image to praise the
activists' efforts towards protecting imposing site of nature in
Armenia's Shirak region.
The activists were protesting against the Nature Protection Ministry's
decision to build a hydropower plant on the territory. Based on the
Government's 2004 decision to declare the site a water monument,
they found the move illegal.
"To prevent one of Armenia's most spectacular waterfalls from turning
into a hydropower plant hundreds of young people with completely
different social backgrounds, education and individual characteristics
- people who had never dealt with nature protection in the past -
came to know each other, joining the environmentalists' campaign. What
unites them is the impermissevenes in Armenia, which entails serious
losses for our citizens, as well as the wonders of nature. Ignoring
the cold weather in Shirak], the young activists have set up an
encampment in the vicinities of Trchkan, protecting the waterfall
from the threat of eternal silence," reads the statement of No Silence.