ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
October 20, 2006 Friday
ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN AND TURKISH JOURNALISTS INTENDING TO ESTABLISH
NETWORK OF ECOLOGICAL JOURNALISTS OF REGION
A group of Armenian, Georgian and Turkish journalists jointly with
the "Ecolur" ecological public organization, are going to establish a
network of ecological journalists. A preliminary agreement on this
has been reached within the framework of the journalists’ media-tour
of the hot ecological spots of Armenia, Georgia and Turkey. The
media-tour was financed by the World Wildlife Fund and the Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund.
WWF and CEPF regional representative Karen Manvelyan has promised to
support the idea. The journalists expressed willingness to regularly
monitor their countries’ environment and provide their foreign
colleagues with information for a wide coverage of the ecological
problems more or less concerning the transfrontier zones of special
protection. During the media-tour, the Armenian, Georgian and Turkish
journalists visited the valley of the Fertina river in Turkey, where
the TRACECA project, meant to connect Europe and the Central Asian
region with a transport-communication corridor, is being implemented.
Stones are uncontrollably felled along the banks of the Fertina river
for the road laid along the Black Sea’s coastline from the city of
Hop to the port of Trabzon. According to ecologists, this is a big
damage for endemic fishes in Fertina. The forests of the Kolhida
province are also being destroyed without any control. In Georgia the
participants of the media-tour visited the Borzhomi-Kharagaulini
National Park, where rare endemic species of plants are being
destroyed and the life of wild animals is threatened by new tourist
route projects. In Armenia the main problem is the pollution of
rivers with chemical waste of the mining industry.
The journalists assumed obligations to be consistent in covering hot
ecological problems in the South Caucasian region.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
