The Biodiversity Conservation Network. One core hypothesis. Seven years of work. Seven countries across Asia and the Pacific. Fifteen staff members. Twenty projects and thirty-nine sites. Forty-eight community based enterprises. Hundreds of project staff. Thousands of community members. Twenty-million dollars of US taxpayer money. And now we are going to sum it all up in a few brief pages. What was it all about? What happened? What did we learn? Was it worth the investment? What practical lessons can you take away from this?