Ahead of the tourist season, highlighting the role of natural monuments in the tourism industry, in an effort to ensure a fairly good, environmentally sound and well ordered tourist visits, to reduce the harmful effects on tourist attractions, to streamline pollution and waste matters, and to exclude cases of illegal use, Minister of Environment Romanos Petrosyan addressed a letter to the RA Governors, asking for their support, to instruct the local self-government bodies to take measures to protect the natural monuments in their communities and to reduce the negative anthropogenic impacts on thereof.

The executive body of “Support Program for Protected Areas-Armenia” (SPPA-A) project is the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Armenia.