State Nature Concervancy of the Slovak Republic is a professional organization of the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic with nationwide scope, focused mainly on ensuring tasks in the field of nature and landscape protection, including the management of caves in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 543/2002 Coll. on the protection of nature and the landscape, as amended, and on the protection of species of wild animals and wild plants by regulating trade with them in accordance with the provisions of Act no. 15/2005 Coll. on the protection of species of wild animals and wild plants by regulating trade with them and on the amendment of certain laws as amended. It cooperates mainly with other professional institutions focused on care for the environment and nature and landscape protection, speleology and related scientific disciplines, further with local bodies of state administration and local self-government, with domestic and foreign scientific institutions and universities, partner organizations abroad and other organizations with an environmental and speleological focus.