Environmental Activists in Gilan: "We'll tear that building down with our own hands"

09:04, July 19, 2012

There's a building in the Gilan Section of the Khosrov Forest State Reserve whose status remains in limbo.

In 2007, the Armenian government changed the zoning status of a 118 hectare section of the reserve known as the Gilan section. This allowed for the commercial leasing of the site and the construction of the building in question. At the time, many were concerned that the building was to be used as a restaurant.

Later, the government nullified its earlier decision but the question about what to do with the nearly completed structure remains up in the air.

Khosrov Reserve Director Varantsov Barseghyan wants the building to stand and to be converted into a nature museum.  Read more... (395 words)

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