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From: Darwin Jamgochian <d.jamgochian@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: ‘CNN Traveller’ Introduces Armenia to a Vast Audience
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Yerevan, April 12
‘CNN Traveller’ Introduces Armenia to a Vast Audience
(LONDON) CNN Traveller magazine, one of the world’s leading travel magazines
with a worldwide readership of more than 800,000, features Armenia’s ecology
in its current (April) issue.
This is the highest-circulation travel magazine to ever feature Armenia in
its pages, and it is the most widely-circulated magazine feature on Armenia
in the United Kingdom, where CNN Traveller is published. The story thus
introduces Armenia to a vast audience.
The feature describes the current state of the environment in Armenia, as
measured by the health and biological diversity of its bird population-a
marker that scientists believe is one reliable measure of a region’s
ecological health.
Armenia has a “disproportionately large number of bird species within its
modest geographic area,” write the story’s authors Robert Kurkjian and
Matthew Karanian, and this explains part of the attraction that the country
has to ornithologists and other scientists, they say.
Kurkjian and Karanian are experts on the Armenian environment. Kurkjian is
an environmental scientist with a Ph D from the University of California.
Karanian is an attorney who teaches environmental law at the American
University of Armenia. They are also professional photographers, and their
images illustrate the CNN story, as well as dozens of other magazine stories
they have co-authored about Armenia and Karabagh.
Their CNN story is an account of a birding expedition that had been
organized by the American University of Armenia’s “Birds of Armenia”
research project. The project, which is funded by the Armenian-American
philanthropist and conservationist Sarkis Acopian, has been working for the
past decade to raise environmental awareness in Armenia.
The magazine story’s authors, Karanian and Kurkjian, are also the authors
and photographers who created the recently-released country guide, “The
Stone Garden Guide to Armenia and Karabagh.” Their book includes a chapter
on Armenia’s conservation efforts.
The editors of CNN Traveller write that it is “the first stand-alone guide
to this often forgotten part of the world.” At 304-pages, “The Stone Garden
Guide to Armenia and Karabagh” is also the most comprehensive country guide
for the region, and it features 75 stunning color photographs and 25
detailed maps.

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