This Management Plan sets out the vision, aim, objectives and underlying principles to ensure the maintenance of the outstanding values of the Namib Sand Sea. It also sets out the primary Areas for actions to ensure effective and sustainable conservation management of those values and the attributes through which they are expressed. The mechanisms that sustain the geological, ecological and population dynamics that established and maintain the Namib Sand Sea are often at such a large scale that intervention is neither required nor possible, while other Management activity is at such a small local scale that it is best implemented through on the spot decisions by conservation staff. Those minor activities are well known to management staff as Routine procedures for which they have been trained and instructed through standard operating procedures. The Management Plan therefore does not address issues outside the scope of human abilities or those that are standard operational duties.