Gardenification of tropical conserved wildlands: Multitasking, multicropping, and multiusers

Tropical wildlands and their biodiversity will survive in perpetuity only t hrough their integration into human society. One protocol for integration i s to explicitly recognize conserved tropical wildlands as wildland gardens, A major way to facilitate the generation of goods and services by a wildla nd garden is to generate a public-domain Yellow Pages for its organisms, Su ch a Yellow Pages is part and parcel of high-quality search-and-delivery fr om wildland gardens. And, as they and their organisms become better underst ood, they become higher quality biodiversity storage devices than are large freezers, One obstacle to wildland garden survival is that specific goods and services, such as biodiversity prospecting, lack development protocols that automatically shunt the profits back to the source. Other obstacles ar e that environmental services contracts have the unappealing trait of askin g for the payment of environmental credit card bibs and implying delegation of centralized governmental authority to decentralized social structures. Many of the potential conflicts associated with wildland gardens may be red uced by recognizing two sets of social rules for perpetuating biodiversity and ecosystems, one set for the wildland garden and one set for the agrosca pe, In the former, maintaining wildland biodiversity and ecosystem survival in perpetuity through minimally damaging use is paramount, while in the ag roscape, wild biodiversity and ecosystems are tools for a healthy and produ ctive agroecosystem, and the loss of much of the original is acceptable.