ABSTRACT
The conservation of a tropical wildland into perpetuity demands that it offer a product to its neighbors and other users. This product must be offered with a minimal loss of biodiversity in the conserved wildland. Humans have better instincts and data for the amount of area needed to support vertebrate populations than they do for invertebrate populations. Since almost all individual insects are thought of as needing much less resource than even the smallest vertebrate, it is implicit in contemporary park design that an area big enough to maintain the vertebrates will automatically pick up the invertebrates. In tropics, humanity is very rapidly extinguishing its remnant rich knowledge of the natural world. A national park offers a major opportunity to re-enrich the cultural heritage of a tropical farming region. Such a view places a major emphasis on demonstration of intellectually and emotionally interesting aspects of the park. This means intellectual and physical contact with organisms.
