The department of Ecology prepares bachelors, specialists and masters in the field of knowledge 10 “Natural sciences”, specialty 101 “Ecology”. It has postgraduate courses (doctor of philosophy) of knowledge field 10 “Natural sciences” on the specialty 101 “Ecology”, specialization “Ecology”.

The department has a high scientific potential: three professors – the doctors of biological sciences and six candidates of sciences – the assistant professors, an assistants. Teachers provide teaching of a number of academic normative disciplines and disciplines of choice, they conduct the following practices: general-ecological, landscape-ecological, educational-internship and pedagogical on a high professional level. Besides, they teach normative disciplines (“Theory and methodology of environmental education for preschoolers”) and discipline of choice (“Fundamentals of Ecology”, “Human Ecology”) at other faculties.

The staff of the department are the authors of a number of articles in Ukrainian and foreign journals, which are included into scientific and metric databases, also in professional editions, scientific monographs, catalogs, textbooks and manuals, and methodological instructions for students teaching.

The teachers of the department  deliver lectures for students of the Mala Academy of Sciences, they are members of the Ukrainian Botanical Society, of the Ukrainian Society of Plant Physiologists, of the Ukrainian Hydrobiological Society, of the Ukrainian Biochemical Society and Ukrainian Physiological Society, of the Ukrainian Hydroecological Society. They participate in editorial boards: Biology Studios / Studia Biologica, Modern Phytomorphology, Animal Biology, Visnyk of Lviv University. Biological series “,” Visnyk of Lviv National Agrarian University “.

The staff of the department take part in the activities of specialized scientific councils: Professor G.L. Antonyak – D 35.368.01 (specialty 03.00.04 – biochemistry) (Institute of Animal Biology NAAS) and K 35.051.14 (specialty 03.00.04 – Biochemistry) (Lviv Ivan Franko National University). Professor V.G. Kiyak is the chairman of the specialized council for the defense of candidate’s theses on the specialty 03.00.16 – ecology (Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians of the National Academy of Sciences) and participates in the work of the specialized council for the defense of candidate’s theses on the specialty 03.00.16 – ecology (Lviv National Agrarian University).

The department actively cooperates with the Institute of Botany named after M.G. Kholodnyy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, State Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Animal Biology of UAAS, National Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shatsk National Nature Park, Carpathian National Nature Park, Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Lviv Regional State Administration, Institute of Botany of Jagiellonian University (Republic of Poland), Institute of Botany named after Scheffer of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Republic of Poland), Oytsovsky People’s Park (Republic of Poland), University named after Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin (Republic of Poland), University of Natural Sciences in Lublin (Republic of Poland).

Teachers of the departments of  Lviv and Polish universities  have certification training at the department of ecology.

The staff of the department have academic internships at the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ukrainian universities, as well as at the University of Natural Sciences (Lublin, Poland) and the Maria Curie Skłodowska University (Lublin, Poland).

The students of the department are practicing at the bases of mountenous biological station of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Kvasy village, Rakhiv district, Zakarpattia oblast) and Shatsk biological and geographical station (Shatsk, Shatsky district, Volyn region). Students-ecologists are engaged into research work, they participate in the conferences, in particular at the annual international conference “Youth and the progress of biology”. A student ecological group is functioning at the department of ecology.