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https://dialogue.earth/content/uploads/2020/05/amazon.jpg142172From Britain to Botswana, the Philippines to Patagonia, individuals and organisations are buying up vast areas of land in the name of protecting environments. But is private ownership the way to save them? John Vidal reports.