Help Save Teghut's Forest From Mining

It's not often that I ask readers to do something for the greater good, especially since a very small percentage of people would even consider spending a minute or two to help save a forest in their homeland. However, I urge you to do just that.

Armenian Copper Program (ACP), with approval from Armenia’s Ministry of Nature Protection, plans to clear-cut over 1,500 acres of Teghut's forest in order to establish an open pit strip mining operation for copper and molybdenum ore.

In addition, ACP plans to create a "tailing dump" in a nearby pristine gorge, where heavy metals and other toxins from mining waste will leach into the ground and into the river flowing through the gorge, ultimately contaminating the local water supply.

I don't think any of you want to see a forest cut down and the environment polluted. Even if you don't care about the animals, trees, and so on, you almost certainly care about the people there who would have a higher risk of disease, birth defects, and so on.

And if you think your voice won't matter, you're wrong: over two years ago, Armenia Tree Project and many other NGOS and international organizations came together to save the Shikahogh Nature Reserve from sure destruction! If it was done before, it can be done again.

I'm starting to sound like a PBS Pledge Drive, so I'll just give you the link: Save Teghut's Forest