The erosion of cultural values favourable to the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources is a consequence of the weak involvement in conservation programmes of indigenous and local communities who are knowledge holders of the nation’s rich and diverse culture. Efforts in ensuring community involvement in natural resource management have been highly sector focused. Instituting Community-based biodiversity conservation and management approaches within specific ecosystems provides an opportunity to valorise the rich diversity of the nation's cultural systems and to ensure the effective integration of customary norms and traditional knowledge into biodiversity management approaches. This will further guarantee the implementation of the principles adopted by this strategy. This calls for the establishment of community-based conservation programmes in all ecosystems, the integration of biodiversity conservation activities in existing community forest management plans that have been developed with the participation of riparian communities and the promotion of the rehabilitation and classification of more sacred forests.