Illegal Logging in the Yeghegnut Forest Enterprise

On May 24, around 1 PM, the ‘Hayantar’ State Non-Commercial Organization received a report from the Yeghegnut Forest Enterprise indicating that on May 20, during a patrol in the number 3 compartment of the Pambak Forest Management, 17 illegally cut trees were discovered.

According to the press office of the RA Police, acting on the received operational information, law enforcement authorities invited Artashes G., a resident of Pambak village, to the Gugark police division around 3 PM the same day. He confessed that on October 5, 2018, he illegally cut down 4 of the aforementioned 17 trees using a chainsaw in the forest area known as