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The aim of the article is to present the problem of security, to compare ecological safety with security in its broad sense and to indicate the role of the infrastructure of environmental protection in the development of ecological safety. The considerations made in this study let us conclude that among different threats to the contemporary world, ecological threats are as significant as military, economic, social and political threats. Ensuring ecological safety is a fundamental task of the state. In order to achieve ecological safety it is necessary to meet particularly difficult requirements. The infrastructure of environmental protection plays one of the main roles in ensuring the right standard of ecological safety. The primary aim of the infrastructure is to guarantee the protective functions of ecosystems and to maintain their socioeconomic functions. Other functions include the maintenance and extension of animate natural resources as well as the maintenance of health in the resources and ecosystems.