- Existence of laws, sub-legislation acts;
- Perception of the importance of ecological issues by the Government and public;
- Armenia’s membership to international conventions and interstate agreements;
- Stable policy framework;
- Increase of state financing aimed at the biodiversity maintenance during 2002-2006;
- Implementation of international projects aimed at the personnel training; re-training and development of science;
- Expansion of cooperation with international entities;
- Presence of sustainable system for specially protected nature zones and setting up new zones;
- Support to the introduction of biodiversity monitoring in specially protected nature zones;
- Number of entities performing scientific researches (scientific-research institutes; scientific centers; relevant departments in universities; scientific divisions);
- Comparatively high degree of studied bio-diversity in the republic;
- Presence of Red Book;
- Presence of broad-scale information about biodiversity;
- Presence of high quality specialists;
- Presence of large number of NGOs dealing with environmental issues and their proactive activities.
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- Negligence of biodiversity conservation issues in various socio-economic development programs of different sectors;
- Insufficient enforcement of provisions stipulated by law;
- Need to develop and adopt normative-legal acts regulating the sectors;
- Insufficient funding of the sector;
- Lack of interconnection of processes going on in the country, insufficient inclusion of the convention issues in them;
- Expansion of non-regulated use of bioresources as a result of population’s destitution and reinforcement of human impact on the eco-systems;
- Lack of evaluation indicators for the state and tendencies of biodiversity;
- Unclear separation of the functions of entities performing management, planning and supervision in this area; their frequent overlap or omissions;
- Lack of databases on biodiversity; state registration; inventory and monitoring system;
- Lack of the mechanisms for the involvement of the private sector during the decision making process on biodiversity maintenance;
- Lack of the national program on conservation of the genetic resources, sustainable use and improvement of accessibility;
- Poor and non-regulated financing of scientific topics in the area of biodiversity;
- Insufficiency of high quality personnel in the line of certain professions (including forestry, taxonomy, resources sciences);
- Limited use of traditional knowledge, experiences and methods; lack of information;
- Insufficient level of use and exchange of advanced technologies.
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