| Summary: | The forests of Zakarpattia Oblast are unique for Ukraine. Productive and very valuable forest ecosystems grow here, and animals of various species, including hunting species, live here. There are quite a lot of scientific publications on the hunting fauna of the Zakarpattia region. However, there are few modern analytical materials and there is a need for them. In this article, we present the data for the species composition of hunting animals of the Velikobychkiv and Dovzhan forest hunting farms and the Khust forest research farm. The information was collected during 2021–2022. The species diversity of fur animals of the Red Book of Ukraine (2021) was analyzed. It was established that the brown bear (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758), the wildcat (Felis silvestris Linnaeus, 1777), the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx Linnaeus, 1758), the European otter (Lutra lutra Linnaeus, 1758), the European polecat (Mustela putorius Linnaeus, 1758), live permanently on the studied objects. These species require additional research and any materials on their distribution and population size are always very valuable. We collected the materials for this article by processing statistical databases and Internet resources. The records were carried out by the questionnaire and survey method, by the noise run method, at the places of winter feeding, on the routes, by prints and traces of vital activity. A comparative analysis of hunting theriofauna was conducted for three objects of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" in the Zakarpattia region. It was established that the region is characterized by a slightly higher representation of ungulates and fur-bearing mammals. It was established that the region is characterized by a slightly higher representation of ungulates and fur-bearing mammals. The species diversity of ungulates in all studied farms is the same and is represented by three hunting species: red deer (Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus, 1758), wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758). Another ...
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