[Lead-in] 1. Investment in conservation has always been a hard sell until now it seems. Now "eco barons" are wealthy investors who are literally buying parts of the rain forest to protest it. Several governments are already on board as the financial burden of conservation is often too much for developing nations to bear. But as Helena Cavendish Demoura reports, it's an arrangement which is raising quite a few questions.
[Story] 2. At first glance, the Amazon rainforest and the world of corporate takeovers could not be further apart. But two years ago something happened. A billionaire from Britain bought 400,000 acres, an area almost the size of Luxembourg in a remote part of northern Brazil.
[Johan Eliasch/ Conservationist] "It all started with an interest in climate change and the environment generally, and I always thought there was so much talk but not much action."
3. Johan Eliasch has made a fortune in the business world - he owns the sports equipment company Head. He's also the personal envoy of British prime minister gordon brown on deforestation. We caught up with him in Guyana where he's advising the government on preserving the country's rainforest. He says his land deal in neighboring Brazil is more a partnership than a purchase.
"Well, it's a big responsibility because it's not just owning the land but you have to do that together with the indigenous people."
4. Some Brazilians saw his arrival as a new form of imperialism, and are wary that a new generation of eco barons could become as powerful as the soy and logging conglomerates that have ravaged the rainforest. But Eliasch wasn't interested in timber or mineral rights. He says the project is about something priceless.
"If you look at the environmental services that a forest provides. Oxygen, how can you put a price on oxygen? Fresh water supply, it's invaluable."
5. In time though preserving the forest may become lucrative - because of the carbon it absorbs. The World Bank estimates that the value of a ton of sequestered carbon is between $30 to $40 on the u.s. Market. And as high as $100 in Europe and Japan markets. As carbon trading comes of age, the amazon rainforest could generate big bucks for green billionaires like Eliasch. Conservation groups say such schemes can only work if local people benefit.
HELENA CAVENDISH DE MOURA, CNN, GUYANA. |
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