Armenia on Saturday will join the Earth Hour environmental movement for the tenth year, between 8։30pm and 9։30pm local time.

Accordingly, the lights of the main streets in capital city Yerevan and in the country’s other cities will be turned off for one hour.

The objective of this global campaign is to raise public awareness of key environmental issues.

The main theme of this year’s event is conservation of biodiversity, and prevention of damage caused to biodiversity by humans.