Archaeologists against exploration in vulnerable forest

Ecologists and archaeologists in Armenia are once again caution that a birdwatcher my own progression in Teghut will cause damage not only to the regional atmosphere, but also to the traditional and social websites that have been found around the position.

It is now more than four decades that environmentalists have been trying to quit the exploration function near the town in Armenia’s south Lori region. Natural activists and conservationists have cautioned that an business removal of birdwatcher and molybdenum in the position will irreversibly damage the ecosystem of the Teghut woodlands, which is house to as many as 55,000 unusual and 45,000 useful vegetation, as well as vegetation and creature types that are authorized in the Red Publication of Endangered Species.

Now it is being said that the progression will also cause damage to a few traditional websites lately found near Teghut. Since 2009, on the effort of the Institution of The archaeology of gortyn and Ethnography of Armenia’s Nationwide Academia of Sciences and with the financing of Valex Team (the organization exploration the area) a 14-member group has performed archaeology excavations in Teghut during which, according to professionals, historical typical monuments of “great traditional and medical significance” were found.

Head of the Teghut historical adventure, selection of traditional sciences Suren Hobosyan says that the use of several traditional and social historical typical monuments on a location of about 1,500 hectares is programmed by the truth that this aspect of Armenia was once one of the most rich places and was used by individuals in the past.

The archaeologist says that the archaeology excavations had already unveiled three historical typical monuments approximated to be 5,000 decades of age, the beginning Brown Age negotiations, which are an utter unique in the record of the Armenian individuals' lifestyle. As new historical typical monuments they have already been authorized by the Organization for the Security of Monuments.

However, what the archeologist is worried about most is the Kura-Arax social coating in Kharatadzor, a historical religious, that has a record of about 3,000-4,000 decades. Under the exploration venture, this coating is predicted to stay under the tailings.

“Monuments staying under tailings are in the most severe situation here. If they are hidden there, we’ll drop them as we already missing a framework similar to a tonir in a historical foundry in Dukanadzor, where the my own is placed. That website was demolished because of the progression perform there,” says Hobosyan.

Although it was determined to switch one of the historical typical monuments in Kharatadzor to the Shnogh Stream, the archaeologist says this way the monument “loses its point” as it will not take a position in its unique position nowadays.

According to the archeologist, examples of Hellenic lifestyle found in several places will be maintained, as no perform is thought out in those places. He says everything will be done for them to be usually provided to the community.

Environmentalist Apres Zohrabyan, a associate of the Trchkan city effort that last season maintained to get the administration to eliminate programs for the progression of a hydro-power position on an vulnerable fountain, indicates that social travel and leisure be designed in the position instead of exploration. He says it will be financially valuable for the position and for Armenia’s traveler market as a whole.

Meanwhile, attorney Ruzanna Ghazaryan, who was also a Trchkan capitalist, says that in 1995 Armenia implemented a law on ecological effect analysis, which says that even an ecological analysis must not be performed “in the location where there is a historical-cultural monument.”

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