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Presently biodiversity is the environmental value constituting main measure of sustainable development in rural areas. In the European Union countries biodiversity is sustained through various protective measures among which the most important are so called agricultural and environmental programs realized in rural areas. In mountain areas and other territories with considerable natural values and great share of grasslands sustaining landscape biodiversity is maintained through cooperative herbivorous livestock systems. The alternative might be a costly landscape conservation involving cutting lands hardly accessible to agriculture, especially localized in the zones within rigorous nature protection.