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    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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