Government Bends To Protests And Agrees To Leave Intact Shikahogh Reserve

Yerevan, June 17, Armenpress: Bending to the daily mounting protest of ecologists and public at large against its plans to build a highway in the southern part of Armenia through the middle of the old growth Mtnadzor (Dark Canyon) forest, which occupies about half of the Shikahogh nature reserve, one of only three pristine reserves in the country, the government has backpedaled on its intention and formed a task force to examine the feasibility of an alternative route that will connect Armenian Meghri with Kapan and provide a safe road to neighboring Iran.

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