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    ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PROTEST YEREVAN DOLPHINARIUM

    Hurriyet
    Dec 2 2010
    Turkey

    Armenian environmental groups protested against the Yerevan
    Municipality's plan to build a dolphinarium in the capital's Komitas
    Park, the Caucasian Knot website has reported.

    Grayr Savzyan, head of environmental organization Ekodar, said last
    week that 50 environmental organizations had sent a letter to the
    president, the prime minister, the Nature Protection Ministry and
    Yerevan's mayor demanding an immediate halt to the construction of
    the dolphinarium.

    Local environmentalists failed to receive a response from the mayor
    regarding their request of documents confirming the legality of the
    construction of the dolphinarium, Silva Adamyan, chair of a related
    nongovernmental organization, said.

    "We can't ensure the necessary climatic conditions and diet for
    dolphins. The animals are accustomed to countries where there is sea
    or ocean, with very high humidity; we have nothing similar. How can
    we keep these animals?" Adamyan asked.

    "The construction of the dolphinarium is aimed to restore the park,
    which is in miserable condition, and, thus, to protect the park from
    disparate buildings and lawlessness," according to the Yerevan mayor's
    press office.




    From: A. Papazian
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