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Daily Sabah (19 January 2023)

Azerbaijan filed a lawsuit against Armenia under the scope of the Bern Convention, over the country’s “extensive destruction” of the environment and wildlife throughout its three-decade occupation of the Karabakh region.

The Foreign Ministry said Baku has collected evidence of Yerevan's environmental destruction in Karabakh, internationally recognized as the territory of Azerbaijan, adding that severe harm was caused to the area's nature and biodiversity.

"Armenia's widespread deforestation, unsustainable logging, and pollution through significant construction and mining in areas that were protected nature reserves prior to occupation has put over 500 wildlife species at risk in Azerbaijan," the statement said.

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