• determine the need for conservation individual areas and facilities;
• optimization of the network of protected are as and objects of natural reservefund;
• educational activities and promotion of ecological conservation, environmental knowledge;
• rational organization and optimization of the protected area;
• theoretical and practical research in protected areas;
• use the experience of international cooperation in the field of environmental protection.

• Biology
• Hydrology
• Landscape ecology

The role and importance of protected areas and objects in the life of the biosphere and society. The historical development and current state reserves in Ukraine. Legislative and regulatory basis for the formation and development of reserves in Ukraine. Compliance with environmental legislation in the territories nature reserve fund. Classification and areas of objects NRF Ukraine. Environmental network Ukraine. Red Book of Ukraine. The main forms of international cooperation in Protected Areas. The main provisions of environmental conventions character. Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine and Lviv region.

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• current control, verbal questioning, control work (40%)
• final control (control measure, differentiated test): writing-verbal form (60%)