Together with local and international organizations Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PAEF) civil initiative has started a petition on change.org with the demand to stop gold mine exploitation in Amulsar and cease funding “Lydian International” offshore company.

We would like to ask Sevan, Jermuk residents and whoever is concerned about the future of Armenia and its ecological security to go to the petition site, learn about the risks, sign and circulate the call to stop the dangerous project in Amulsar.

The demands mentioned in the petition are directed to Armenia’s prime-minister Karen Karapetyan, president of World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim, CEO of International Finance Corporation Philippe Le Houérou, president of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Suma Chakrabarti, private major investors Orion Mine Finance and Resource Capital Funds.

Organizations that would like to join this initiative can contact us at [email protected]

Organizations that have joined so far are below:

1. Greens Union of Armenia

2. Environmental Public Alliance

3. "Environmental Public Society" NGO

4. "Ecological Academy" NGO

5. "The A.D.Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Protection Center" NGO

6. "Environmental Sustainability Assistance Center" NGO

7. "Jermuk Development Center" NGO

8. "Public Diplomacy" Charitable NGO

9. "Center for Community Mobilization and Support'' NGO

10. Green Party of Armenia

11. "Biosofia" NGO

12. "BLEJAN" Environmental, Social and Business NGO

13. Association “For Sustainable Human Development”

14. “Sustainable Development” NGO

15. "Martuni Women’s Community Council" NGO

16. Haik Project - USA

17. moretreeslessassholes.org   environmental website - Belgium

18. "Asociación Armenios" - Barcelona, Spain

19. "Armenian Renaissance" Diaspora Movement's New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Belgium chapters