Lithuanian Biodiversity Research Forum intends
to develop the national biodiversity research strategy and to ensure the impact of the research results on biodiversity conservation, first and foremost directing efforts at the implementation of the Lithuanian commitments to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD):
to define the national biodiversity research priorities, impelling discussion, exchange of information and mutually beneficial relationships between biodiversity researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders,
to help responsible policy-makers to understand the requirements of biodiversity research and to ensure that results of the research would improve the biodiversity conservation,
to encourage researchers to contribute to biodiversity policy discussions and to ensure their participation in defining the national biodiversity conservation policy,
to promote development of the national biodiversity research programs in consistency with the needs of the biodiversity conservation policy, requirements of the society and the international agreements of the country;
to establish a national network of biodiversity experts from all disciplines to co-ordinate the research in the country:
to inform researchers, policy-makers and practitioners about biodiversity-related projects,
to identify gaps in knowledge of the country’s biodiversity, to promote projects to fill them,
to consolidate the biodiversity researchers, to concentrate their knowledge and efforts, to organize virtual research centers,
to promote development of the national inter-institutional and interdisciplinary biodiversity research programs, to co-ordinate their implementation;
to rise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity to the welfare of people, to promote knowledge of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD):
to promote dissemination of biodiversity research results and to ensure that the outcomes of the state-funded research would be accessible to the policy-makers and practitioners responsible for biodiversity conservation,
to promote awareness of society of biodiversity (scientific, social, ethical etc.) values, the CBD and importance of science input to its implementation,
to inform researchers about the achievements of biodiversity research and conservation in the other European countries and harmonize the research efforts in Lithuania with them,
to share the best research achievements and conservation practices in Lithuania with the other European countries.