• To bring together international experts in forestry, cultural history, ethnobotany, traditional knowledge, land scape planning, biodiversity management, corporate social responsibility, energy management, environmental law and agriculture.
• To bridge the gaps that exists between forest science communities and holders and users of traditional forest knowledge.
• To promote understanding of inter-relationship between traditional and formal forest related knowledge.
• To catalyze potential synergetic applications to sustainable forest management.
• To focus on current state of traditional knowledge on ongoing changes in climatic conditions in different ecological zones of the world, and the implication of these environmental changes on forest management and conservation.
• To prioritise on research, policies and practices that are relevant for facilitating policy makers and programme executives for planning a mechanism in managing healthy and productive natural resources for future societal needs and economic development.
• To explore different models of sustainable development on preservation of indigenous knowledge, lands, sovereignty and culture while providing for integrated economic development, institutional capacity building and technological advancement.