EcoLur
On 26 May the residents from Shamakhyan area, Gosh, Haghartsin and Teghout communities, Dilijan, Tavush Region, gathered in front of Dilijan Town Hall demanding to permit them to enter the forest and take fallen deadwood out of them. “In this season they don’t allow people to go into the forest and gather fallen deadwood. They are waiting for the snow to fall down, and only then they tell us to come and collect the deadwood. But it’s difficult in this season,” said Haghartsin Community Head Sargis Poghosyan in his interview with EcoLur. “Let them make gas prices cheaper and we won’t need forest…but people have no other way out.” “Dilijan” National Park Director Sahak Muradyan told EcoLur that the ban on taking out fallen deadwood from the forest was based on Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan’s assignment. “We have the assignment of the Nature Protection Minister for four months, which says not take out timber of the forest for a certain period,” Sahak Muradyan said. “We used to permit them to go into the forest and to collect fallen deadwood, but we had over 700 cases of illegal tree felling.” As Sahak Muradyan noted the problem has been regulated due to the intervention of Tavush Regional Head Hovik Abovyan and now the residents can already go into the forest and collect the fallen deadwood after making proper payments: the fee for one cum of fallen deadwood is 5400 AMD.
May 27, 2016 at 16:36