Nazeli Vardanyan

According to the last forest inventory of 1993, forest land makes up 459,900 ha, of which over 73 per cent or 334,100 ha is covered with forest. Overall, the inventory showed forest coverage of 11.2 percent for the country.  However, the inventory was done before the economic turmoil of the 1990s and there have been notable changes in the forest cover since then. International organisations have made more recent estimates of the forest cover in the country and they have given much lower estimates – approximately 7–8 per cent.