SunChild: Armenia's First Regional Environmental Festival!

SunChild is organized by Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets and Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development and will take place between April 1-15 of 2007, in Dilijan, Armenia. Here are some more details:

The aim of the festival is to create a background with suitable conditions for bringing up a healthy and strong generation, taking care for the nature of their own country as well as of neighboring countries and protecting the assets and treasures that were created by mankind throughout thousands of years. In this sense, the festival provides wide opportunities for cross-cultural communication and dialogue.

One of the most important goals of our festival is to develop within the new generation the love, care and understanding towards the nature surrounding them. Our children will inherit this planet, and it is not only important in what condition they inherit it, but even more, whether they will be prepared to live in harmony with nature, to preserve and care for its beauty.

Armenian Film programs from the festival will be screened at different International Environmental festivals worldwide.

Armenia's hippies, unite!

Source: SunChild Festival

Armenia's Nature: Open for Tourists!

This was an inevitability. Armenia's economy is based very strongly on tourism, so why not exploit whatever is left of our unspoilt nature for the almighty dollar?

In 2007, Armenia's nature reserves will be opened for tourists, RA Minister of Nature Protection Vardan Aivazyan told reporters.
He said that ecotourism infrastructures will be formed and tourist routes elaborated.

The Minister pointed out that the ecosystem of nature reserves will not be affected.

Hundreds of thousands of careless tourists creeping their way through beautiful, vulnerable Armenian nature: what could possibly go wrong?

Source: Arka

The Incredible Photography of Hovik Melikyan

I accidentally stumbled on Hovik's Flickr account to find some very beautiful photographs of Armenia, Yerevan, and other subjects, as well.

Find his photos here and enjoy!