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Mass termination of valuable trees in Armenian-occupied areas of Azerbaijan continues

Society Materials 12 May 2006 11:42 (UTC +04:00)

Mass termination of valuable trees in the Armenian-occupied areas of Azerbaijan continue, the Ministry of Ecology and natural Resources of Azerbaijan said that some types of trees and bushes arrack oak, yalangoz, east plane-tress, pomegranate, wood grapes, Buasie pear, shumshad, Eldar pien-tree and other valuable types are on the eve of disappearance.

The area of forests of public significance, which are currently under occupation, comprises 975,900h. The coniferous forest covers the area of 10,400h, hard-leaf tree forest - 814,400h, soft leaf trees forest - 22,700h. 2,700h, 95,300, 7,500h are aged and old woods respectively. 70-80% of the forest are young trees.

These facts testify for violation of international ecological conventions, as well as irrefutable evidences for informing the world community abut Armenians attitude towards the environment, the press service announced.

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