@inna
You can't buy what isn't for sale! I heard this so often over the years, "The Japanese bought Pebble Beach", "They bought the Waldorf", yadayada. "The Chinese bought the rainforest"....the list goes on and on. Why doesn't anyone get angry with the seller while only the buyer gets bashed? The seller wants the enhanced value (there is coal under that mountain or oil under that meadow) and then scream and shout when the buyer who paid up for the asset tries to realize the value of their LEGAL purchase. Outlaw the extraction if that is our desire prior to an extractor of said asset paying up(that would be my desire in ALOT of places). Most areas have considerable examples of conservation easements where a non profit entity raises fund through donation or taxes and then pays a farmer/rancher a sum of money in exchange for deed restricting the property. it works quite well. They realize the financial gain and the public realizes it desire to keep open spaces.
Similarly, the west has been buying or taking assets globally for generations. Things get bought and things get sold and things get taken. Look at the Middle East oil fields (at least until they were nationalized). While I absolutely despise everything the Nazi regime stood for, the US and the Soviets took their technology for nukes and rocket propulsion as the spoils of war. Someone else takes the research of someone else and enhances, streamlines, solves problems and introduces new innovations. Once again, in order to negotiate with others you must know them. Intellectual property is a western concept, one which I respect, but thinking that a patent/copyright will solely protect your ideas is outdated. To try to block free market asset sales would send the far right over the edge..."the gubment won't let me sell what is rightfully mine to sell!" ""the gubment won't let me buy sumpthin I want with my very own money". Can't have it both ways. Reverse engineering has been going on since the beginning of .... engineering. I'd bet there was a dude who had an idea of feeding the masses with loaves of bread while there was another dude who believed feeding the masses with fishes was a better approach.....and then another came along and decided to feed everyone with loaves AND fishes...and he made history! Tesla, Edison, AC, DC....
Back to the rainforest and the environment....now, wouldn't it be nice if the populace (the world) would support and fund such important purchases...call it the environmental version of a stock buyback, to purchase large blocks of land to take it off the market forever. BUT....then there's always a neighbor named Cliven....CLIVEN....really?...who believes he has a right to graze his water buffalo (or whatever herds are adjacent to the rainforest in question) on this publicly owned land.