The concept of ecocide offers a lens with which to articulate the socio-ecological consequences of Armenia’s extractive governance.
For all the ambitious global talk of humanity’s increasing efforts to meet the challenges of our Anthropocene Epoch, the persistent failure of international governance frameworks to address the widespread destruction of Karabakh’s natural environment is indicative of failure.
From a rampant Timber Mafia and Yerevan’s role in what the World Wide Fund for Nature condemned as rivers ‘used as open sewers’ to lax illegal mining practices resulting in heavy metal contamination leaching into water sources, the occupation will have a long-term toll on our biosphere.
