Latest Environmental News
May 11, 2013: Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears
May 10, 2013: Armenia Gold Mining Problems Cast Shadow Over Renewed EBRD Financing
May 6, 2013: Forest Nursery Will Be Established at Institute of Botany in Yerevan
April 15, 2013: AUA Study Says Mining in Armenia Creates Poverty, Income Inequality
April 4, 2013: AUA Evaluates 25 Toxic Waste Sites Near Communities in Armenia
April 1, 2013: Toxic Smoke Covers Northern Armenian Town
April 1, 2013: What Are Reasons of Bird Disappearance in Armenia?
March 14, 2013: 93% of Workers at Alaverdi Copper Smelter Diagnosed with Various Illnesses
March 2, 2013: Battle to Save the Euro Leopard
February 14, 2013: Presence of Caucasian Leopard in FPWC Caucasus Wildlife Refuge is Confirmed
February 6, 2013: Water Management and Preservation of the Kura-Araks River Basin
January 2, 2013: Iran Wants to Lease Armenian Pasture Land
December 21, 2012: Teghut Supporters File Report to Prosecutor’s Office on Illegal Mine Development
December 10, 2012: On Prime Minister’s Visit, Activists Stage Environmental Protest
December 7, 2012: Revisiting the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant
November 30, 2012: First Results of FAO-Supported Afforestation and Reforestation Project in Armenia
November 21, 2012: International Conference to Examine Future of Mining in Armenia
November 16, 2012: Forest Conservation is Key to Food Security
November 16, 2012: Seminar Explores Environmental Impact of Armenia’s Proposed Nuclear Power Plant
November 16, 2012: Government Orders Planting Forest Around Lake Sevan
November 8, 2012: Syunik Invites Tourists to their Part of 'Armenia’s Open Air Museum'
October 25, 2012: Toxic Tailings Continue to Flow into Akhtala's Debed River
October 24, 2012: Diasporan Youth Urge President Sargsyan to Halt Teghut Mine
September 25, 2012: Akhtala Mining Company Continues to Dump Wastes Into River
September 18, 2012: Tankian for Teghut - Former SOAD Vocalist Again Raises Concern About Mining Project
September 7, 2012: Honey for Teghut: Environmental Campaign Uses Apiculture
September 2, 2012: Reducing the Risk of Disaster in Armenia
August 3, 2012: Mining in Armenia’s Teghut Forest Expected to Have Many Negative Impacts
July 16, 2012: Setback for Armenia's Lake Sevan
July 13, 2012: Half of Mining Tailing Dumps in Armenia Are Located in Syunik Region
July 10, 2012: Shrinking Green Areas, Large-Scale Construction Blamed for Snake Activity in Armenia

Commentary/Analysis
April 29, 2013: Specialist Says Local Communities Are Able to Manage Forests (Video)
April 26, 2013: How to Root A Healthy Attitude Toward Nature Among Our Children
March 27, 2013: Transboundary Conservation in the Caucasus – Is the Time Not Yet Ripe?
March 21, 2013: Saving the World's Forests - A Technology Revolution to Curb Illegal Logging
February 4, 2013: An Interview With Environmental Activist Mariam Sukhudyan
January 18, 2013: The Birth of the Teghut Forest National Reserve
December 21, 2012: Armenia’s Mining Quandary: Developing a Diaspora-Linked Economy
December 12, 2012: Teghood - Path to Liberation
November 29, 2012: The Re-Gardening of Eden or Environmental Collapse in Armenia?
September 18, 2012: Let's Rethink Economy Based on Mining and Look to a More Sustainable Future
August 9, 2012: Serj Tankian's Message of Support for Teghut Forest (Video)
July 31, 2012: We Can Reforest the Earth
July 26, 2012: Pennies on the Dollar (Teghut)
July 18, 2012: Logging: The Thin Line Between Business and Organized Crime
June 18, 2012: Occupy...Teghut, Mashtots Park & Beyond
June 11, 2012: Small Hydro Power Plants in Armenia
May 31, 2012: This Forest Is Our Forest
February 13, 2012: Turkey’s First Wildlife Corridor Links Bear, Wolf and Lynx to Caucasus Forests
March 29, 2012: Greens Union of Armenia Presents Alternative Analysis of Teghut Project
March 29, 2012: Ombudsman’s Office Report on Nature Protection in Armenia
March 19, 2012: The Road to Echmiadzin
March 16, 2012: Teghood
March 2, 2012: Our Environment, Our Armenia
February 29, 2012: Teghut I - The Field
February 21, 2012: 'Save Teghut' Redefines Environmental Activism in Armenia
February 16, 2012: Busting the Forest Myths - People as Part of the Solution
February 8, 2012: Mining Plans in Lori Region Endanger Public Health and Teghut Forest (Video)
February 1, 2012: Win a Little, Lose a Lot (Luba Balyan)
January 27, 2012: AEN Statement About PACE Declaration No. 503 on Teghut Mining Project
January 27, 2012: Finding Wealth in the Soil - Green Economy Can Replace Mining (Armenian)
January 25, 2012: Condemnation of the Man-Made Ecological Disaster Project of Teghut
January 17, 2012: LandGrabbing the Armenian Way or the Story of Promoting Rual Migration?
January 12, 2012: New Ethics Committee Should Start with Environmental Minister
December 21, 2011: My Ideal Nature
December 3, 2011: Renewable Energy Potential in Armenia
November 30, 2011: The Saga of Trchakan
November 13, 2011: Ambassador Charles Lonsdale: Going for Green
October 30, 2011: The Real Cost of Gold
September 24, 2011: Redefining Our Economic Systems: Could a Forest Be Worth More Than a Gold Mine?
August 16, 2011: Meet Serj Tankian, Activist
June 24, 2011: Human Rights in Armenia: Environmental Right
June 13, 2011: Alpine Travels in Armenia (Part One)
April 1, 2011: Who Can Save Tatev From Greedy Mining Interests?
February 25, 2011: What is a Tree Worth?
February 2, 2011: Of Forests and Men, International Year of Forests: A Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
January 22, 2011: Nightmarish Trips to Syunik Marz
October 11, 2010: Logging in Armenia and the Right to a Healthy Environment
October 15, 2010: Armenia’s Environmental Issues Through the Eyes of an AVC Volunteer
October 11, 2010: Trees Are Crying...Are You Listening?
February 10, 2010: Putting a Value on Nature Could Set Scene for True Green Economy
December 31, 2009: ATP's Sustainable Development Strategies Strive to Protect
October 19, 2009: American-Armenian Businessman Threatens Reporter Over Mining Article
July 18, 2009: Armenia Tree Project Anniversary and Goals
June 4, 2009: In Defense of Armenia’s People and Reserves
May 12, 2009: HOME, A Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
February 11, 2009: ATP Advocates for Sustainable Development in Armenia
December 31, 2008: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (Trailer)
December 27, 2008: Sustainable Development and Armenia’s Environment
September 06, 2008: Armenia Tree Project Continues to Excel
September 22, 2007: Dreams of Gananch
July 14, 2007: Letter to the Editor: “No mining in Teghut”
July 07, 2007: Armenia’s Forests Are Vanishing; Greed and Corruption Aren’t Helping
June 30, 2007: Will Teghut's Forest Be the Next Victim of Mining?
June 27, 2007: New Threat on the Horizon
May 19, 2007: Armenia: The Deathless Tree
March 03, 2007: Fighting Global Warming with Trees
December 23, 2006: For Holiday Gifts, Think Armenia Tree Project
November 04, 2006: Opinion: Seeing the Climate Policy for the Trees
October 24, 2006: Opinion: The Planting of Ideas
August 5, 2006: Editorial: Hope in a Bleak Landscape
June 25, 2006: The Greening of Armenia by Armenian Tree Project
April 20, 2006: Not Out of the Woods Just Yet
September 19, 2005: Shikahogh and President Bush
September 12, 2005: Implications of the New Forest Code for Armenia
August 1, 2005: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Documents Green Belt Movement’s Tree Planting Strategy
June 27, 2005: With Help From the Diaspora
June 21, 2005: Interview with Environmental Activist Wangari Maathai
June 6, 2005: Pave Paradise And Put Up A Parking Lot
January 1, 2005: The Ends of the World as We Know Them
December 10, 2004: Trees for Democracy
November 2004: The Future of Alternative Energy in Armenia

Archive
June 22, 2012: ENPI FLEG Project Says Incentives Key to Encourage Sustainable Use of Forests in Georgia
June 18, 2012: FAO Report Profiles How Sustainable Forestry Can Help Meet Development Goals
May 2, 2012: Backhanded Victory for Environmental Activists (Mashtots Park)
April 13, 2012: Mashtots Green Movement Grows Stronger With Each Passing Day
April 5, 2012: Crying Wolf: A Misguided Canine Extermination Campaign or Sheep Protection?
February 22, 2012: Armenia Activists #Occupy Yerevan Park
February 22, 2012: Mashtots Park Protest Shows Power of Public Initiative
February 13, 2012: Environmental Protection or Environmental Disaster in Store for Armenia? (Armenian)
January 30, 2012: PACE Condemns Mining-Related Human Rights Violations in Armenia
January 29, 2012: Archaeologists Against Mining in Endangered Forest
January 22, 2012: Protesters Unite Against Mining in Kajaran
January 16, 2012: Environmentalists Protest At Armenian Mining Site
January 11, 2012: Occupy Teghut? Year Begins with New Protest of Mining Exploitation
December 7, 2011: UNEP Hands Billion Tree Campaign Over to the Young People via Plant-for-the-Planet
December 2, 2011: Greens Say Armenia's Prized Lake Threatened by Mining
November 8, 2011: UNEP Billion Tree Campaign Reaches 12 Billion Milestone
November 4, 2011: Waterfall conservation saga ends in rare victory for Armenia environmentalists
November 4, 2011: 'Armenian Niagara' Saved From Turning Into a Trickle
November 3, 2011: Development Dilemma: Tourism vs. Mining in Syunik
October 25, 2011: UNDP Armenia Reduces Carbon Footprint
October 24, 2011: Armenia: Where Deforestation Is a Hidden Killer
October 21, 2011: Environmentalists Concerned about Industrial Impact on Armenia’s Water Resources
October 19, 2011: Could a Forest be Worth More than a Gold Mine?
October 19, 2011: Rare Plants, Heritage Trees Growing Anew in Armenia
October 6, 2011: Armenia's Aging Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant Alarms Caucasian Neighbors
October 1, 2011: Young People Declare Green Economy Crucial to Earth's Future
October 1, 2011: With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors
September 26, 2011: World Pays Tribute to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Champion for Environment
September 14, 2011: Armenian Conservationists Alarmed by Continued Poaching of Red Book Species
September 5, 2011: Increasing Fragmentation of Landscape Threatens European Wildlife
August 28, 2011: Shalakh Apricots from Armenia Become 1000th 'Passenger' on Slow Food's Ark of Taste
August 26, 2011: Pollution and Diversion of Water Resources Driving Farmers From Their Lands
August 26, 2011: Toxicity Inc.: Mining and the Struggle for Armenia’s Soul
August 18, 2011: Tankian Performs in Yerevan, Calls for Separation of Business and State
August 17, 2011: Armenian Rock Star Serj Tankian Calls For Change in Armenia
July 18, 2011: Germany to Allocate Funds for Biosphere Reserve in Armenia
July 1, 2011: Aarhus Convention on Environment and Human Rights Crucial for Ecological Protection
June 21, 2011: Environmentalists Again Warn of Damage Caused by Mines
June 21, 2011: Tourism vs. Mining in Syunik: Svarants Residents Sound Off
June 10, 2011: Environmentalists Work Out Programs Aiming to Reduce Illegal Logging
May 14, 2011: AR TV Reports on the Destruction of Teghut's Forests
May 12, 2011: Researchers Say Produce is Contaminated in Armenian Mining Region
April 11, 2011: Is Armenia's Nuclear Plant the World's Most Dangerous?
April 1, 2011: Warning or Happenstance? Environmentalists Say Abnormal Births Linked to Abuse of Nature
March 28, 2011: REC Caucasus and UNDP Organize Event Dedicated to International Year of Forests
March 17, 2011: USAID and UNDP Launch Plastic Recycling Project in Armenia
February 11, 2011: Academy of Science Experts Say Armenia Faces Pollution Crisis
February 11, 2011: Environmentalists Worry That Hillside Mine Will Bring Contamination to Georgia
February 4, 2011: ‘We Children Will Do it Ourselves’: A 13-Year-Old Calls for Climate Action
February 2, 2011: Armenia-Georgia NGOs Sign Statement Urging Suspension of Teghut Mining Project
January 28, 2011: UN Chief Calls for 'Clean Energy Revolution' at World Economic Forum
January 18, 2011: Armenian Ecologists Up In Arms Against Another Mining Project
January 10, 2011: PFA Issues Second ‘State of the Nation’ Report on Armenia’s Environment
January 4, 2011: Yerevan Facing Potential Environmental Crisis This Spring
November 24, 2010: Toxic Waste Site in Yerevan Dangerously Exposed, Warn Ecologists
November 11, 2010: Thousands Protest Russian Uranium Mining Plans in Southern Armenia
November 5, 2010: Government Urged to Revoke Mining Rights of Russian Gold Firm
November 4, 2010: Without Borders (The Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspot)
October 7, 2010: Environmentalists Sound Alarm Over Open Arsenic Dump in Alaverdi
October 4, 2010: Environmentalists Decry Risks of New Armenia Nuclear Reactor
September 23, 2010: Well-Organized Locals Often Make the Best Forest Managers
September 14, 2010: Armenian Greens Alarmed at Mining Waste Dump Plan
August 19, 2010: Armenia’s Next Environmental Crisis?
August 6, 2010: Former Environment Ministry Officials Jailed For Accepting Bribes
July 9, 2010: Armenians Fight Uranium Plans in Syunik
June 18, 2010: Appeals by Environmentalists Remain a Cry in the Wilderness
April 29, 2010: New Project Could Make Teghut Forest Profitable Without Destruction
March 11, 2010: U.S. Embassy Presents Woman of Courage Award to Mariam Sukhudyan
January 30, 2010: Listening to the Wind of Change: Renewable Energy in Armenia
January 12, 2010: Year-in-Review of the Environmental Movement in Armenia
January 7, 2010: Climate Study Predicts Water Shortage in Armenia
December 17, 2009: Protected Areas Pave Way for Community and Ecosystem Stability
October 15, 2009: Climate Challenges for Armenia Addressed at OSCE Conference
October 8, 2009: Archbishop Aykazian Addresses Senators on Climate Change
September 21, 2009: UN’s Billion Tree Campaign Hits Seven Billion Goal Target
August 19, 2009: Rights Groups Condemn Case Against Armenian Activist
July 13, 2009: Environmentalists Take Their Case to Court to Protect Teghut Forest
June 10, 2009: UNEP Tree Planting Campaign Hits Four Billion Mark
June 4, 2009: Environmentalists Fight to Save Lake Sevan from Toxic Mining Venture
June 3, 2009: First Ladies Oppose Mining Project Endangering Ancient Forest
March 26, 2009: Joint Project With Russia To Mine Uranium Stirs Environmental Worries
February 16, 2009: A Ring of Illegal Construction Sites Has Encircled Lake Sevan
January 26, 2009: They've Also Buried Chemical Waste in Alaverdi 'Arsenic Graveyard'
January 23, 2009: The Felling of Trees in Teghut Has Begun
November 12, 2008: Uranium Exploration Plans Provoke Fears
October 27, 2008: ICFJ Announces Winners of Biodiversity Reporting Awards
May 14, 2008: Billion Tree Campaign Flowers Into Seven Billion Tree Campaign
April 1, 2008: Building Communities Preserves the Environment
February 29, 2008: The Giving Trees
January 28, 2008: Forest Copper Mine Triggers Controversy in Armenia
January 23, 2008: New Section of Highway Caused Minimal Damage to Shikahogh Reserve
January 23, 2008: Copper Controversy Haunts Armenian Town
December 27, 2007: New Global Forest Agreement Depends on Local Support
December 20, 2007: Economic Study of Deforestation and Potential Solutions Released
November 28, 2007: UNDP Armenia Releases Latest Human Development Report
November 26, 2007: The Victims of Deforestation
September 01, 2007: Teghut, Drembon, Alaverdi, and the Politics of Pollution
July 11, 2007: Copper Mine Menaces Armenia's Teghut Forest
June 27, 2007: Twenty Years From Now, Will We Have Armenia, or a Moonscape?
June 5, 2007: World Environment Day Commemorated in Yerevan and Dilijan
March 30, 2007: SunChild Regional Environmental Festival in Armenia
March 30, 2007: Deforestation Panel to Launch Armenian Environmental Network
March 16, 2007: Planned ACP exploitation will ruin Lori forests and villages
February 26, 2007: Ministry Decision Contradicts 77 Articles of the Law
February 23, 2007: Copper Mine Sparks Environmental Outcry
February 16, 2007: Emissions, Chemicals Blamed for Rise in Birth Abnormalities
January 8, 2007: The Forest is Receding (Vanadzor)
January 8, 2007: Arménie : La forêt s’éloigne
December 18, 2006: Environmental Protection Enhances Economic Development
December 15, 2006: Independent Armenia Slow to Learn Stewardship of Nature
November 14, 2006: Many Nations’ Forests Regrow, Study Finds
November 9, 2006: Environmentalists Alarmed By Scale of Logging
November 08, 2006: New Project Would Plant a Billion Trees Worldwide
September 4, 2006: Deforestation causes global warming
April 28, 2006: Illegal Trade in Lumber at Root of Armenia Tree Loss
April 10, 2006: Teghut Mine is Another Battle between Nature and Profit
March 16, 2006: Plan for "Strategic" Road vs Fight to Save Wonder of Nature
December 19, 2005: Wind of Change For Armenian Energy Sector
November 28, 2005: Black Cloud Over Teghut
October 29, 2005 ISSUE UPDATE: SOS Yerevan protest
October 6, 2005: Aarhus Centres to Open in Armenia
July 11, 2005: Encourage Armenian Government to Protect Shikahogh
July 7, 2005: Deforestation Plans Ditched in Armenia
June 27, 2005: Government Reroutes Planned Iran Road to Placate Ecologists
June 24, 2005: The Dark Beauty of the Forests of Shikahogh
June 17, 2005: Reserve Saved as Government Rethinks Route of Strategic Road
June 17, 2005: Last chance for the forests of Armenia
June 14, 2005: Update on Proposed Construction Through Shikahogh Reserve
June 7, 2005: Armenian Government Road Would Slash Rare Nature Reserve
May 25, 2005: Proposed Interstate Highway Comes at Expense of Rare Nature
May 5, 2005: A Strategic Road or a Fight Over Oak Trees?
April 1, 2005: Ecosystem Changes Will Put Global Development Goals At Risk
January 12, 2005: Loggers Destroying Bosnia’s Forests
December 10, 2004: Nobel Laureate Maathai Links Environment to Peace, Democracy
August 16, 2004: Fines Imposed in Yerevan
July 21, 2004: Yerevan Becoming a Desert
June 14, 2004: A Plan For Conservation on a Continental Scale
April 26, 2004: Death of Green Spaces in Yerevan
March 24, 2004: World Bank Survey Highlights Shrinkage of Armenian Forests
March 17, 2004: Cafe Boom ‘Devastating for Yerevan Parks’
March 9, 2004: Government Assessing Flood Damage to Armenian Agriculture
March 5, 2004: A Hidden Ecological Disaster
February 6, 2004: March Is Tree-Planting Month in Yerevan
October 21, 2003: Requiem for Armenia’s Forests
October 21, 2003: Vanadzor’s Vanishing Forests

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