Also speaking in defense of the park and its famous pine tree grove known as the "lungs of Yerevan, were Eleanora Gabrielyan, President of the Armenian Botanical Association, Lia Osipyan, member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Botanical Sciences Gohar Oganezyan, and others noted environmental specialists. They noted that the Crimean Pine Grove is unique in Armenia and that it took years of hard work to create and nurture. The participants were angered that someone has now seen fit to appropriate the site and vowed to struggle till the end in defense of the park and its resources. Aram Gharibyan agreed that such issues be first afforded a public hearing and promised that in the future the public would be made aware of such government decisions while still in the draft stage.