The Basic Definitions in this Law 1. Wildlife denotes vertebrate and invertebrate animals and populations thereof habitually existing in their natural state in freedom. Animal resources denotes wildlife, the parts thereof and products of their activity, which man employs or may employ to satisfy his needs. Limitation of Animal Resources denotes establishment of norms for the use of wildlife resources while taking into account the information held, regarding the amount of animal resources, their replenishment and preservation for the future.
Economic activity denotes activity which has an effect upon wildlife.
Introduction denotes bringing in a species of fauna foreign to Lithuanian natural surroundings, with the intention of settling them in natural surroundings. Reintroduction repeated introduction and spreading of the type of fauna in Lithuania, which has become extinct or has been destroyed in Lithuania, with the intention of re-establishing it in natural surroundings. Purpose and Validity of the Law 1. This Law shall regulate relations of the protection and use of wild animals, in order that natural wild animal communities and the variety of their species might be preserved, the habitation required by wild animals and conditions for breeding and migration routes be preserved and rational exploitation of wild animals be ensured. Should the international agreements ratified by the Republic of Lithuania, establish other regulations of wildlife use and protection, international agreement regulations shall be applied, provided these shall not contradict the Republic of Lithuania Constitution.