Natural resources of Aghdam region are plundered for 17 years.
There were 1736 ha public forests, 710 ha collective farm forests, 560 ha roadside and river banks, as well as suburban green belt before the occupation, press service of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources told. 64 863 thousand sq. m of block stones, 140 464 thousand tons of Chobandagh limestone, 44 708 thousand tons of Boyahmedli and 25197 thousand tons of Shorbulag clay resources remained in the occupied territory.
The longest river in the region – Khachinchay, 104 km, has 657 sq. km of water-collecting area. There were 14 Eastern plane trees of 150-200 years and 71 Eastern plane trees of about 400 years in Aghdam, which were protected as a natural monument. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan established a crisis center, which is learning destructive impact on environment and natural resources in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, found out following facts about Armenian plunder against the natural resources of the region, including cutting of the 400-year-old eastern plane trees.
6330 ha of pasture were burnt by the Armenian militaries in the occupied Novruzlu, Yusifjanli, Kanagarli, Chelik, Garadaghli-Kengerlisi, Goytepe, Gulchuluk villages of the Aghdam region. A number of partridges, pheasants and adders, which were included in the red list of the International Nature Protection Union, were killed during the fire.
APA
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