Abstract
Ukraine has a long history of campaigning for the preservation of not only the biological but also the geological component of the natural environment. The first society for the protection of nature in the history of the Russian Empire was created in Ukraine in 1910. The aim of the society was to protect both the living and mineral kingdoms of the natural environment. Since 1992, Ukrainian geologists have been taking part in the meetings of the European working group (EWGFSC-the future ProGEO) and from 2000 have been members of the Central European Group of ProGEO. One of the symposiums, ProGEO 2006, took place in Ukraine, and it was no accident that this allowed the development and inclusion in the geological curriculum of Dnipropetrovsk National University as the new course: ‘The Study and Preservation of Natural Geological Monuments (Geosites)’, which has been taught from 2012. This training course includes the history of the origin and development of the movement for the conservation of the geological heritage; examples of geoconservation in Europe and the world; the legal framework regarding the Nature Reserve Lands of Ukraine as a whole (and its geological component in particular); methodological principles for generating a network of geosites in Ukraine and the criteria for the selection of geosites at local, national, European and international levels.
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