Japanese gov’t gifts two modern fire-engines to Georgia for higher protection of Borjomi-Kharagauli national park
Borjomi-Kharagauli national park covers more than 85,000 hectares of native forest and alpine meadows. Photo: mapio.net.
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The Japanese government has gifted two modern fire-engines to the Emergency Management Service of the Georgian Interior Ministry to timely extinguish fires in the most difficult areas of one of the largest parks in Europe-Borjomi-Kharagauli, located on the territories of Samtskhe-Javakheti, Imereti and Shida Kartli regions of Georgia.
The engines will help Georgia preserve and protect the unique park,” members of the Japanese Embassy to Georgia have stated today in the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tbilisi.
Ambassador of Japan to Georgia Tadaharu Uehara came to the Interior Ministry today. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
Deputy Interior Minister Levan Kakava thanked the Japanese government for the support.
He said that the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, where the section of the park is located, is particularly risky in terms of forest fires.
The contribution will play its big role for further strengthening of the Georgian emergency management system,” Kakava said.
More than 232 hectares of forest were burnt during the fires in Borjomi Gorge in 2017.
Together with the Borjomi Nature Reserve, the total area of the park is 851 square kilometers, more than one per cent of the whole territory of Georgia.
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