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THE CHIEF FORESTER EXPLAINS WHY 40% OF GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS IN THE FIELD ARE INEFFICIENT (RECORDING)
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/09/12/108659/
September 12, 2012 16:58
"The work to preserve, restore and use forests has been implemented
with substantial deviations from the plans of forest management that
have been approved," this is one of the
violations in the field of forest management discovered by the Control
Chamber in 2011 and made public yesterday.
It was also mentioned in the report made by the Control Chamber
that 38.169ha of forest lands have been used for non-forest purposes
and they were included in the administrative and cadastral maps of
communities as non-forest lands. "...The corrections are under way. It
is not the violation discovered by the chamber, it is a violation
discovered by us. It is well-known and I have always talked about it -
it is just a complex procedure to bring it back, because when they
give it to the community, they give it based on a decision and if
they take it back from the community, there must be a decision of the
community council etc. There had been such deviations 7 years before
drawing up the temporary diagrams of communities and it was discovered
when a forest management project was under way," Ruben Petrosyan,
the chief forester of the Hayantar state non-profit organization,
made clarifications of the violations during a conversation with
www.aravot.am.
As for another violation revealed by the Control Chamber that the
amount of wood stored in accordance with the types of lumbering has
exceeded the amount provided for by the forest management plans, Mr.
Petrosyan explained that besides the annual lumbering plan approved
by the Minister of Nature Protection, the necessity of lumbering
arose in the process and was implemented also by the minister's
permission, "Additional lumbering is when, for example, trees under
the power supply line must be cut, on which there is a decision of
the government, it is mandatory... that is why there is an excess."
The Control Chamber also discovered that because of noncompliance
with the requirements in nurseries, 40% of government investments in
the field were inefficient. Mr. Petrosyan clarified this saying that
the year 2010 had been a tough year for agriculture and couldn't but
have an impact on forest management.
Details in the recording.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/09/12/108659/
September 12, 2012 16:58
"The work to preserve, restore and use forests has been implemented
with substantial deviations from the plans of forest management that
have been approved," this is one of the
violations in the field of forest management discovered by the Control
Chamber in 2011 and made public yesterday.
It was also mentioned in the report made by the Control Chamber
that 38.169ha of forest lands have been used for non-forest purposes
and they were included in the administrative and cadastral maps of
communities as non-forest lands. "...The corrections are under way. It
is not the violation discovered by the chamber, it is a violation
discovered by us. It is well-known and I have always talked about it -
it is just a complex procedure to bring it back, because when they
give it to the community, they give it based on a decision and if
they take it back from the community, there must be a decision of the
community council etc. There had been such deviations 7 years before
drawing up the temporary diagrams of communities and it was discovered
when a forest management project was under way," Ruben Petrosyan,
the chief forester of the Hayantar state non-profit organization,
made clarifications of the violations during a conversation with
www.aravot.am.
As for another violation revealed by the Control Chamber that the
amount of wood stored in accordance with the types of lumbering has
exceeded the amount provided for by the forest management plans, Mr.
Petrosyan explained that besides the annual lumbering plan approved
by the Minister of Nature Protection, the necessity of lumbering
arose in the process and was implemented also by the minister's
permission, "Additional lumbering is when, for example, trees under
the power supply line must be cut, on which there is a decision of
the government, it is mandatory... that is why there is an excess."
The Control Chamber also discovered that because of noncompliance
with the requirements in nurseries, 40% of government investments in
the field were inefficient. Mr. Petrosyan clarified this saying that
the year 2010 had been a tough year for agriculture and couldn't but
have an impact on forest management.
Details in the recording.
From: A. Papazian