Yerevan Brandy Company employees spend their Responsib`ALL Day in  Yerevan Botanical Garden 

ArmInfo. For already eight years  in a raw the employees of Pernod Ricard company are celebrating  Responsib'ALL day. This year 18,500 employees in 80 countries, spent  a whole day away from their daily tasks to engage in over 100 local  community projects to show their commitment and contribution to  society.

As it is known, Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) represents Pernod Ricard  in Armenia. The employees of the company also joined the initiative  on June 7 and spent the whole day in the Yerevan Botanical Garden   conducting a whole range of activities.  Within the framework of the  press tour to the Botanical Garden, Director of Human Resources  Management of the YBC Andrey Panov said that cooperation with the  Botanical Garden of Yerevan is aimed at restoring the population of  plants that was lost as a result of a fire (in 2017 ed. note) and  relishing  the garden.

<The Responsib'ALL Day is the day that sums up the systemic activity  of our company in the field of environmental care. This is a day that  allows each YBC employee, regardless of department and position, to  contribute to the preservation and improvement of the environment,  and also to pay attention to the problems existing in this area, in  particular pollution, destruction of rare flora species and much  more. Such events have become a tradition for us, to which we are  attracting our partners and society, "said Panov.

According to him in the past year, YBC employees held an action to  improve the "Erebuni" state museum-reserve, the results of which  delight citizens and guests of the capital up to this day. "I really  hope that our cooperation with the Botanical Garden will also give  many wonderful moments to all visitors," he said. In particular, he  noted that it is planned to plant more than 100 pine trees in the  garden, which were previously purchased in the Kotayk region of  Armenia. Activities on improvement will be carried out in an oak  alley and in various biographical sites of the garden, exhibiting a  variety of flora of Armenia and the planet.

Endemic plants rare for Armenia will be planted in the exposition  area of the ''Armenian Flora and Vegetation'' site.  The plants are  on the brink of extinction and are listed in the Red Book of plants  of the RA, in particular, bluddernut, Sorbus Roopiana, Zangezur Pear,  Sosnovsky Pear and some other plants. The aesthetic component of the  project will be strengthened by planting over 1800 seedlings in three  locations adjacent to the site of "Collectible Roses".

Director of the Institute of Botany after A.L. Takhtajyan of the  National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Zhirayr Vardanyan noted that  the YBC campaign  is an example of the formation of a special social  responsibility to the Yerevan Botanical Garden, which is a  recreational center of maintaining biodiversity and creating world  flora collections and leading scientific institutions of the country  in the field of introduction and acclimatization of plants. "The  Botanical Garden is already 80 years old, and it is obvious that we  have problems accumulated during these 80 years. The garden exists at  the expense of the Institute's financial resources. The staff, which  consists of 100 employees, the overwhelming majority of  whom are  scientists, do not have enough resources  to properly care for the  garden, "he said, stressing that only 10-15 people are involved in  caring activities of  the garden. And with the help of another 400  YBC employees, he continued, it will be possible to solve all these  problems.

Z. Vardanyan noted that the total collection of the botanical garden  is about 5 thousand plant names, which is one and a half times more  than the number of the native aboriginal flora of Armenia. "Since the  garden area is represented mainly by plant species introduced from  different geographical regions of the world," he concluded.

Based on the inventory of the flora of Armenia, the results of which  are reflected in the 11 volumes of Flora of Armenia (1954-2010), it  is revealed that the composition of the modern flora of Armenia  includes 3600 species of vascular plants belonging to 922 genera and  160 families. In addition, the second edition of the "Red Book of  Armenia" (2010) was published, in which 452 plant species (12% of the  total flora of the RA) were registered. About 200 species are endemic  plants.

The legendary Armenian brandy ARARAT is produced by Yerevan Brandy  Company using traditional technology, the foundations of which were  laid in 1887 by the brothers Nerses and Vasily Tairyants. ARARAT  brandy is created using only local endemic high-quality Armenian  grapes and crystal clear spring water. Precious ARARAT brandy is aged  exclusively in barrels made of Caucasian oak, produced in their  in-house cooperage plant. In 1998 Yerevan Brandy Company became a  part of Pernod Ricard, an international company and the world's  leader in the Premium spirits industry.