Volodymyr DANYLOvych Bondarenko : Forester, scientist, AND poet (on the occasion of his 75 <sup>th</sup> anniversary)
Volodymyr D. Bondarenko - Member of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, PhD in Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Agroecology and Environmental Economics of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, member of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society, member of the Foresters Society of Ukraine. During his career, V. D. Bondarenko co-authored about 500 scientific, educational, scientific and popular publications, including eight monographs, ten textbooks, and one manual. He is the author of more than ten poetry books. Scientific papers of V. D. Bondarenko cover the problems of forestry, hunting, forestry history, national traditions of forest management, environmental education, and environmental tasks. He has developed and implemented the recommendations for planting oak plantations in the conditions of Moldova region, as well as the protection of fauna in agricultural landscapes, inventory of game animals, the restoration of natural ecological systems in protected areas of the Western Podilia.