Action Plan on the Conservation of Landscape and Biological Diversity for 2015–2020.

The purpose of the Action Plan on the Conservation of Landscape and Biological Diversity for 2015–2020 is to create conditions for the implementation of a long-term landscape and biodiversity policy based on national tradition and the requirements of European Union legal rules, international conventions, resolutions, agreements and programmes, and define the objectives, tasks and measures for the protection, planning, use and management of landscape and biological diversity until 2020. The Plan provides for strategic and other objectives and tasks for the conservation of landscape and biological diversity, and the objectives and tasks for protected areas. The evaluation criteria for the objectives and tasks and their target values are provided in Annex 1. The implementing measures are in Annex 2. The requirements for the development of projects on landscape formation and improvement of the ecological status in areas of the nature frame and on reference landscape formation in trans-frontier areas are given in Annex 3. The national objectives for the protection of natural habitats of Community importance are provided in Annex 4.
The strategic objectives are: to conserve landscape areas of various territorial levels and their ecological potential by ensuring their adequate planning, management, use and sustainable development. To implement the strategic objectives two landscape protection objectives have been identified that are set out as follows: The first objective is ensuring targeted and sustainable landscape formation. One of the legal cornerstones in the landscape sector is the European Landscape Convention giving great importance in the conservation of the diversity of landscape to the integration of provisions on landscape protection, use, management and planning in the environmental, territorial planning, agricultural, social and other policy areas with direct or indirect impact on landscape. 9.3. The second objective is maintaining and enhancing the ecological stability of landscape. This objective is being pursued as the basis for the ecological stability of landscape in Lithuania as the nature frame: a coherent network of natural ecological compensation areas ensuring the ecological balance of landscape, natural links between protected areas, other areas or habitats of importance for environmental protection, also the migration of fauna and flora between them. Maintaining and enhancing this structure is of vital importance for the support of the diversity of species and the conservation of the vitality of landscape.
The Plan set outs an additional objective that will help to implement the strategic objectives in the field of the conservation of landscape and biological diversity. This objective is defined as follows: The objective for protected areas is to ensure good status and proper use and management of landscape and biodiversity as well as of natural and cultural values, and adapt them to visiting (especially in state parks).