Former Armenian MP sounds alarm: This time, the Yerevan Municipality  cut down healthy trees on Henri Verneuil street

ArmInfo.This time, healthy trees, in front of the Sos Sargsyan Theater,  were cut down on Henri Verneuil Street, as reported by  Samvel Farmanyan, a former MP from the third President Serzh Sargsyan's Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), who shared a related footage on his Facebook page. 

Farmanyan drew attention to the fact that it has become nearly  impossible to breathe in Yerevan, especially in the city center.  "There is nothing but unbearable dust and highly polluted air. The  remaining green spaces and trees are simply being chopped down. And  all this for the sake of 'pennies for a couple of people.' This is  what the sovereignty of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan looks  like. Otherwise, 'the Soviet regime forced Yerevan residents to  breathe clean air for decades. We, our city if we want to, we breathe  dust. And if we don't want to, we won't breathe at all, because now  we are "sovereign,"'" Farmanyan concluded.

It's worth noting that, starting in 2023, Yerevan City Hall has been  implementing a so-called tree replacement program, especially in the  city center. Authorities explain this initiative by "the need to  renew trees that are losing their viability with more valuable  species." However, experts believe that the city hall is actually  committing ecocide. Despite persistent warnings from  environmentalists about the illegality of such actions, authorities  continue to cut down healthy trees, replacing them with cherry trees  and other species that are not well suited to the country's climatic  conditions.