ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter reviews 10 key points that have emerged out of the chapters presented. The overarching conclusion is that sacred natural sites are an important but largely unrecognized, and highly threatened, primary network of conservation sites with the power to make a significant contribution toward protecting and restoring biological and cultural diversity. The 10 conclusions discussed below establish a framework and suggest steps toward supporting sacred natural sites as an important means of conserving nature and culture. These provide the conceptual foundation for the recommendations with which the book concludes. A preliminary action plan generated to inform further steps is included in Annex 2.
