Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has instructed that a specialist unit be set-up tasked to register all the green areas in the city and take a count of the trees.

Margaryan has directed the working group that it has until the end of 2012 to complete the job.

Based on the unit’s findings, a map of the city’s green zones will be published that will assist municipal agencies to protect and preserve Yerevan’s precious trees and other botanicals.

The municipality also plans to plant some 10,000 evergreen and 20,000 decorative trees this year in Armenia’s capital.