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If you’re a rich tree hugger and your money is burning a hole in hole in your pocket, why not buy an environmentally sensitive chunk of South America to protect. EcoGringo to the rescue, saving the planet one jungle subdivision at a time. On the upside, you’re saving sensitive land from developers and injecting dollars into cash strapped governments that will wisely spend it.?! On the downside, you’re a foreigner and a gringo American no less, buying sensitive lands that have always been public, and by all rights should always remain public, for undisclosed amounts of cash payments to government bureaucrats. But hey, when Eco friendly celebs like Sly Stallone, Ted Turner and Italian fashion designer Luciano Benetton are buying up your land you would think the natives would learn a lesson from Hawaii and just hand out leis, though a luau and pray that a reality show takes hold.  LOS ESTEROS DEL IBERA, Argentina - The American multimillionaire who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines says he is trying to save the planet by buying bits of it. First Douglas Tompkins purchased a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina.
Wealthy foreigners have bought an estimated 4.5 million acres in Argentina and Chile in the past 15 years for private Patagonian playgrounds. Sylvester Stallone, Ted Turner and Italian fashion designer Luciano Benetton all have large holdings set amid pristine mountains and lakes.
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| cstrcstamyst on Jun 24, 07 0 Trends 39 Comments |
| well how esle is is going to get done??? i'm glad. here in costa rica you'd have to worry about squatters, but imagine that's not an enormous problem in other nations. |
cstrcstamyst on Jun 24, 07 0 Trends 39 Comments
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| rocketranger on Dec 1, 07 0 Trends 2,582 Comments |
How about Brazil Amazon area, SE Asian jungles,
Venezula jungles, Fr Surinam Area, Cancun Mex area???
Java, Bali, Phillpines, China, Russia, Finland, Greece etc.
Yes make this Globalwide. |
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rocketranger on Dec 1, 07 0 Trends 2,582 Comments
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