On November 11th a “Zil 131” truck tipped over and rolled into the valley below while returning from the Lalvar forest products company located near the village of Shogh in the Lori Marz (Region). The truck was loaded with wood from tip to toe.
Max Woods’ representatives in Karabakh are Mher Bagratyan and Enrique Viver Camin from Spain. Three years ago Viver Camin established a wood-drying operation in the village of Koghb in Armenia’s Tavush Marz, which caused serious damage to the region.
Despite the alarms that ecological NGOs have been sounding for ten years, trees are still being felled on a massive scale in the north ofArmenia, in the forests of the Lori and Tavush marzes. The heavy rains at the end of May and the beginning of June disrupted the work.