Azerbaijan Ecology News Bulletin

CCSI recently received the first issue of "Green Azerbaijan," a monthly bulletin which reports on the environmental situation in Azerbaijan. The bulletin is published by ECORES, an independent information organization established in Baku in 1995.

ECORES collects and disseminates environment-related information, publishes maps and sets up information systems on geology and ecology, organizes conferences and seminars, promotes the use of environmentally clean technologies, and has established an environmental library in Baku. It has established relationships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association of Geographers. It works with a number of international environmental NGOs, including Sacred Earth Network and ECOLOGIA in the U.S., the Socio- Economic Union in Russia, and the Environment Foundation of Turkey. Financial support for "Green Azerbaijan" was provided by ISAR.

The first issue of "Green Azerbaijan" included:

• An analytical article titled " Ecological Imperatives of Sustainable Development of Azerbaijan" by Shahin Panah, the head of the Department of Geography and Environmental studies at Khazar University and founder of ECORES;
• A chronicle of environment-related events in Azerbaijan for the last month, including: the results of government studies, pending legislation, conferences by NGOs, fines levied by the government against polluters, etc.
• a brief digest of select stories in the mass media related to the environment, and
• a report on the agroclimatic resources of the Apsheron region of Azerbaijan.

For more information about ECORES and "Green Azerbaijan" contact:

Shahin M. Panahov, Project Coordinator
ECORES
68, Tagizade str.
Baku - 370134 Azerbaijan
Tel: ( 99412) 31-78-81
E-Mail: [email protected]

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