The major problem on this topic is that Brazilians are being told that foreigners are infringing on Brazilian Sovereign territory to cut down the Amazon for farming and ranching. The truth is that Brazilians are cutting down the Amazon and foreigners are being blamed.
Big Lands Brazil has put together eight points which try to describe the media’s distortions:
1.) There are three main foreign buyers for Amazon land. Yes they are buying, because Big Lands Brazil represent them, and they have major plans for this land. Their plans: 100% preservation. It should be noted that only about 1% of the total Amazon could feasibly be bought, because the government owns 95% of it and the other 4% is not for sale.
2.) The foreign buyer has no intent to ever go on this land, so Brazil’s sovereign territory will never be touched or be threatened, which is the main excuse the media pushes on its people in Brazil to justify kicking foreigners out. What they will do is put Brazilian property managers on the land to protect the land from illegal cutters or squatters. So the entire media logic about Brazilian territory being infringed is a lie as well. How is something being infringed if it is being bought to be left in the hands of Brazilians, while foreigners pay taxes on it (to point out, Brazilians don’t pay taxes, they let them pile up on properties until they have to sell them, foreign ownership is a blessing to government coffers, because real money is coming in on a yearly basis.)
3.) Ten years ago one hectare of land cost US$10 dollars. That means a person could pay US$1 million for 247,100 acres. It was the cheapest land around! Then the world woke up and said: “we have a problem, the world is getting warmer and we have a serious problem called global warming. Then Amazon land went from US$10 per hectare to US$200 per hectare, depending on the location, and on the southern edges of the Amazon in the state of Mato Grosso, it is up around US$400 to US$2000 per hectare depending on how productive the lands is.
4.) It should be pointed out that the rich farmers are typically politicians themselves or connected to politicians. They are not happy about this price rises, especially if they had grandiose expansion plans in mind ten years ago, All these environmentalist, and foreigner corporations creating demand for Amazon land for the first time ever have really caused these farmers to have there grand plans ruined. They never planned to budget in for a 2000% price increase! Land that was once worthless now has a value and this has upset many politicians and land owners, because now there mega farm plans are squashed.
5.) We should ask ourselves, why did the price go up so fast? Well there are about five main agents in Brazil that sell these large tracks of Amazon land. There is my company “Big Lands Brazil”, then there is “Brazil Property Group, Inc.” and then there are a few other agents. I came to the game a little late, but now we dominate the market thanks to something called transparency. The first reason is that there demand for preservation projects which was very small before.
6.) The second reason and the main reason prices went up are the agents themselves, they have bid up the prices for the sellers to the foreign buyers, these agents doing this target the gringos. It should be pointed out that both Brazil Property Group, Inc and Big Lands Brazil do not bid up prices. The term for this is the “gringo affect”, this is very common in Latin America, the locals see a gringo and then they raise their price, sometimes 2000%.
7.) The third reason prices are going up fast is because of Carbon Credits, though it is still new, it is the future of protecting the Amazon. Though the formal rules haven’t been shared to all, this is very lucrative if you are connected to the right people. Though to audit a piece of land, it takes a long while.
8.) Last thing to point out about this voyage through the Amazon, is that the media in the main markets is owned by politicians, are the politicians themselves spinning this story? We will let you decide?
“Big Lands Brazil” concludes: Politicians and their rich friends are mad because their farm expansion plans are squashed because of a 2000% price rise on Amazon land prices. This price rise is due to a bunch of gringos coming into Brazil buying up properties for Preservation and Carbon Credit projects where they will never step foot onto Brazilian soil. The world is mad at Brazil for cutting too many trees and not doing enough to prevent deforestation. So Brazil is mad at the world by using it politician influenced media to tell it citizens that we need to stop foreigners from buying in the Amazon, and they spin this story by stating the foreigners are responsible for the deforestation and are taking over sovereign territory of Brazil. This is all in an attempt to bring down prices on farms so the rich farmers can buy them at a much lower price to continue on with there expansion. We end by stating: The smart Brazilians are selling out when prices are high.
