Adibekyan Family Foundation for Advancement will send 100 000 EUR for the elimination of the consequences of a fire in the Khosrov Forest

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Thursday


Adibekyan Family Foundation for Advancement will send 100 000 EUR for
the elimination of the consequences of a fire in the Khosrov Forest

 Yerevan August 17

Marianna Mkrtchyan. The charitable organization Adibekyan Family
Foundation for Advancement of philanthropist Gagik Adibekyan will send
100,000 EUR to eliminate the consequences of the fire in the state
reserve "Khosrov Forest". The press service of the fund told ArmInfo.

"Today, when the fate of the unique nature reserve "Khosrov Forest"
and the ecology of the whole region is under threat, we can not stay
away. Restoration of forests after a fire requires a long time, a lot
of work and considerable funds. I believe that only by acting
together, we can shorten the period of restoration of this unique
nature reserve," said the founder of the Adybekyan foundation.

On August 12 at 12:30 in the Rescue Service of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia there was a signal
that a meadow burned in the state reserve "Khosrov Forest" in 20 km
from the village of Urtsadzor (Ararat region). The area of the fire
was about 200 to 250 hectares. Armenian forces of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations failed to extinguish the fire by their own
efforts and turned to their Russian counterparts for help. On August
14, the Russian side sent an IL-76 special plane to help Armenia. On
August 15, at 08.50, the IL-76 plane of the Ministry of Emergencies of
Russia carried out its first flight into the fire zone. The night
before it was possible to extinguish the main fires in the reserve.

According to the preliminary data of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations of Armenia, on the territory of the state reserve "Khosrov
Forest" as a whole, vegetation perimeter was 16 km thick, of which 360
hectares of forest. The forest fire destroyed grass coverings with a
perimeter of about 15 km, 320 hectares of which - forest.

The charitable organization Adibekyan Family Foundation for
Advancement was founded in Luxembourg by a businessman and
philanthropist Gagik Adibekyan. The Foundation initiates charitable
projects in Armenia, Russia, Luxembourg and other countries aimed at
developing and strengthening cultural and business ties between people
and countries and supporting projects in social, sports and
educational spheres, preserving the cultural and historical heritage
and developing small towns and territories Armenia.