Olesya KASPRUK is deputy director
of a branch of the Green Cross Society and works as a scientist in the
Department of Ecology and Landscape at the Ukrainian State University of
Forestry and Wood Technology (USUF). She graduated from Lviv Institute of
Forestry and obtained her Ph.D. from USUF in 1997. During her doctoral thesis
preparation, she collaborated in the work of the USUF botanical garden.