ArmInfo. For already eight years in a raw the employees of Pernod Ricard company are celebrating Responsib'ALL day. This year 18,500 employees in 80 countries, spent a whole day away from their daily tasks to engage in over 100 local community projects to show their commitment and contribution to society.
As it is known, Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) represents Pernod Ricard in Armenia. The employees of the company also joined the initiative on June 7 and spent the whole day in the Yerevan Botanical Garden conducting a whole range of activities. Within the framework of the press tour to the Botanical Garden, Director of Human Resources Management of the YBC Andrey Panov said that cooperation with the Botanical Garden of Yerevan is aimed at restoring the population of plants that was lost as a result of a fire (in 2017 ed. note) and relishing the garden.
<The Responsib'ALL Day is the day that sums up the systemic activity of our company in the field of environmental care. This is a day that allows each YBC employee, regardless of department and position, to contribute to the preservation and improvement of the environment, and also to pay attention to the problems existing in this area, in particular pollution, destruction of rare flora species and much more. Such events have become a tradition for us, to which we are attracting our partners and society, "said Panov.
According to him in the past year, YBC employees held an action to improve the "Erebuni" state museum-reserve, the results of which delight citizens and guests of the capital up to this day. "I really hope that our cooperation with the Botanical Garden will also give many wonderful moments to all visitors," he said. In particular, he noted that it is planned to plant more than 100 pine trees in the garden, which were previously purchased in the Kotayk region of Armenia. Activities on improvement will be carried out in an oak alley and in various biographical sites of the garden, exhibiting a variety of flora of Armenia and the planet.
Endemic plants rare for Armenia will be planted in the exposition area of the ''Armenian Flora and Vegetation'' site. The plants are on the brink of extinction and are listed in the Red Book of plants of the RA, in particular, bluddernut, Sorbus Roopiana, Zangezur Pear, Sosnovsky Pear and some other plants. The aesthetic component of the project will be strengthened by planting over 1800 seedlings in three locations adjacent to the site of "Collectible Roses".
Director of the Institute of Botany after A.L. Takhtajyan of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Zhirayr Vardanyan noted that the YBC campaign is an example of the formation of a special social responsibility to the Yerevan Botanical Garden, which is a recreational center of maintaining biodiversity and creating world flora collections and leading scientific institutions of the country in the field of introduction and acclimatization of plants. "The Botanical Garden is already 80 years old, and it is obvious that we have problems accumulated during these 80 years. The garden exists at the expense of the Institute's financial resources. The staff, which consists of 100 employees, the overwhelming majority of whom are scientists, do not have enough resources to properly care for the garden, "he said, stressing that only 10-15 people are involved in caring activities of the garden. And with the help of another 400 YBC employees, he continued, it will be possible to solve all these problems.
Z. Vardanyan noted that the total collection of the botanical garden is about 5 thousand plant names, which is one and a half times more than the number of the native aboriginal flora of Armenia. "Since the garden area is represented mainly by plant species introduced from different geographical regions of the world," he concluded.
Based on the inventory of the flora of Armenia, the results of which are reflected in the 11 volumes of Flora of Armenia (1954-2010), it is revealed that the composition of the modern flora of Armenia includes 3600 species of vascular plants belonging to 922 genera and 160 families. In addition, the second edition of the "Red Book of Armenia" (2010) was published, in which 452 plant species (12% of the total flora of the RA) were registered. About 200 species are endemic plants.
The legendary Armenian brandy ARARAT is produced by Yerevan Brandy Company using traditional technology, the foundations of which were laid in 1887 by the brothers Nerses and Vasily Tairyants. ARARAT brandy is created using only local endemic high-quality Armenian grapes and crystal clear spring water. Precious ARARAT brandy is aged exclusively in barrels made of Caucasian oak, produced in their in-house cooperage plant. In 1998 Yerevan Brandy Company became a part of Pernod Ricard, an international company and the world's leader in the Premium spirits industry.