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Features | 29.04.10 | 13:18

Ecological Exploitation for Teghut?: New project could make forest profitable without destruction

By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
An entrepreneur who lives by an endangered forest and uses its wealth for his business has drafted an alternative project that he hopes will give protection to green areas of the country.

Environmentalists have resisted the development of copper mines around Teghut, in northern Armenia, warning that the operations put the local forest with some rare species of flora and fauna on the verge of extinction.

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John Aidiniantz (unverified)
09.05.2010 03:53
What does the Environment Minister say about the destruction of parts of the forest and what benefits to the economy are there going to be in mining copper - prices of which has recently fallen on the international copper market? Maybe the goverment should be doing more to attract tourism - which means cleaning up its own act, never mind cleaning up the environment.
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