RIVER ARAKS IN THE FOCUS OF ATTENTION OF BOTH COUNTRIES
25/12/2007
Panorama.am
New labor groups created by the initiative of the Governments of Iran and Armenia to research the pollution of Araks River. According to Aram Harutunyan, the minister of nature protection, seven labor meetings were organized with the participation of both countries and the activities were discussed which should be held next year.
According to him 30 million drams were disposed to assist the development of the summer trout and other fishes. He said that 11 licenses were given to agricultural fishers and 6 contracts were signed, besides 17 tickets for amateur fishing and 515 permissions were prepared.
The minister said that they managed to find environmental violations and registered 1682 violations. And totally 93.4mln.drams was sent to the state budget from the taxes of those violations.
In the department of Syunik region one case of violation was registered: hunting of Bezoarian Goat; this type of goat is registered in the Red Book. The appropriate punishment was applied to the hunters.
According to the minister 950 Christmas trees were imported from abroad, particularly from Germany, Netherlands, and Russia. He said that not a single case of tree cutting was registered from Armenian fields.
Panorama.am
New labor groups created by the initiative of the Governments of Iran and Armenia to research the pollution of Araks River. According to Aram Harutunyan, the minister of nature protection, seven labor meetings were organized with the participation of both countries and the activities were discussed which should be held next year.
According to him 30 million drams were disposed to assist the development of the summer trout and other fishes. He said that 11 licenses were given to agricultural fishers and 6 contracts were signed, besides 17 tickets for amateur fishing and 515 permissions were prepared.
The minister said that they managed to find environmental violations and registered 1682 violations. And totally 93.4mln.drams was sent to the state budget from the taxes of those violations.
In the department of Syunik region one case of violation was registered: hunting of Bezoarian Goat; this type of goat is registered in the Red Book. The appropriate punishment was applied to the hunters.
According to the minister 950 Christmas trees were imported from abroad, particularly from Germany, Netherlands, and Russia. He said that not a single case of tree cutting was registered from Armenian fields.
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