Story | 06 сен, 2010

Sacred Natural Sites Book

Sacred natural sites are shown to contain remarkable biodiversity and therefore can make a significant contribution to halting the catastrophic extinction of wild species of plants and animals as well as the decline and damage of habitats and ecosystems.

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They also display a broad array of cultural diversity, languages, rituals, traditional knowledge, art, song, story, dance and identity and therefore appear of universal humanitarian value.

Religion can partner with conservation science in sacred natural sites for the pragmatic and effective protection of nature. Often cared for by their traditional custodian community, sacred natural sites represent a wide diversity of socio-ecological models that can help find approaches for more sustainable lifestyles and human-nature relationships for the world at large.

CEESP & WCPA members Bas Verschuuren abd Rob Wild, Lead Editors of this publciation will be launching this at a Sacred Natural Sites side-event at COP 10 of the CBD in Nagoya, Japan.