Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?
In the United States, the American Prairie Reserve [1] is doing something along these lines in the area around the Wyoming&#x2F;Montana border. In particular, their purchases (which often include private ranches that come up for sale) focus on building those corridors between existing public lands, effectively creating much larger continuous ecosystems that this article mentioned.<p>It&#x27;s probably easier to do in the United States (a lot more land than in England, and with fewer entrenched ownership considerations), but I&#x27;d really be interested to see if similar projects would work in other parts of the country that are more densely populated, or in areas like the California central basin to where public water resources are being abused to farm a desert.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanprairie.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americanprairie.org&#x2F;</a>