Special website created for Armenian children to learn about lake Sevan

YEREVAN, March 20. / ARKA /.  The French Embassy in Armenia, the International French School of Yerevan and the Swiss humanitarian foundation KASA presented today a new educational website about Armenia’s largest Lake Sevan at sevanlake.am.

Alice Lena, the attaché on technical and scientific issues of the French Embassy in Armenia, said during the presentation that the idea of the website belongs to the embassy, which also provided funding for the project. The website was designed by KASA.

The main aim of the project is to raise public and especially youth awareness of scientific information available on current ecological situation of Lake Sevan that resulted from fifty years of human activities, which caused disruption of the 100,000 years’ balance of the Lake ecosystem, said Alice Lena.

The website offers general information about the lake, its problems, expert opinions about the options for their solutions, a gallery for pictures, as well as an opportunity to place pictures, add texts and so on.

It has also an interactive game aimed at raising awareness of Lake Sevan among schoolchildren.

Lake Sevan is situated in the north–eastern part of Gegharkunik province of Armenia, 60 km to the north-east from Yerevan. 

Together with Lake Van in Turkey and Lake Urmia in Iran, it is one of the three great lakes of the Armenian Highland and the historic Armenian Kingdom. Situated  at the altitude of about 1,900 m above the sea level it is among the world’s largest high–mountain, freshwater lakes. 

The combination of those three attributes makes the Lake an exceptional and remarkable phenomenon in the region and in the world.-0-