About us

՞Sustainable Forest Management՞ NGO

Goals and Objectives: The organization shall perform its operations in accordance with the RA Legislation. In particular:

• Contribute to the conservation of forest and other ecosystems, increase of their productivity and development of effective ways of using the ecosystem;
• Independent forest monitoring;
• Contribute to forest regeneration and afforestation;
• Contribute to the restoration of green zones within the settlements;
• Implement environmental consulting and educational projects;
• Boost dissemination of environmental information;
• Increase environmental awareness and environmental consciousness;
• Enhance community engagement on environmental issues through capacity building in the communities;
• Make inventory of bioresources, stocktaking, develop forest management plans and implement monitoring activities;
• Ensure participation in forest management, agricultural management, monitoring and planning activities of forest and agricultural land use in rural areas;
• Implement measures to prevent land degradation and land erosion;
• Ecotourism development;
• Conservation of rare, threatened trees and shrubs that are registered in the Red Book;
• Improve the legislation on nature conservation, forests and agriculture...

The objective of this public service initiative is to enhance governance and help reduce illegal activities and harmful impacts on forests and other ecosystems through independent monitoring. This involves engaging local community members and independent experts to support the monitoring efforts. The initiative focuses on forest ecosystems managed by "Hayantar" SNCO as well as forests and other ecosystems within the network of Protected Areas overseen by the RA Ministry of Environment. Field surveys may be carried out with or without the presence of state representatives. Monitoring is performed using remote sensing (RS) and GIS tools, along with photographic and video documentation, personal interviews, and other effective methods to detect and map deforestation, degradation, afforestation/reforestation, illegal construction, and more.

To support public monitoring of forests in various regions of Armenia (Lori, Tavush, Syunik, Kotayk), local support groups have been trained in the following areas:

• Identification of illegal forest activities
• Use of GPS and terrain orientation
• Data collection and transfer

Our NGO aids Armenian citizens in sharing their observations of illegal activities in the country's forests and other ecosystems. To submit an observation, collect data—such as precise coordinates using GPS or accurate field notes with references to specific locations (e.g., proximity to the nearest village)—take pictures of the locations from different angles, and submit your report.