Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
I have always felt that the UN should take over the Amazon and run it as a protected world park. Of course Brazil would not agree with that.
Not a bad idea, actually. Though, being highly suspicious of anything United Nations, a forced upon declaration by UNESCO to include the greater Amazon region [over all borders] as a World Heritage site might be a step in the right direction. Other world areas could use a good dose of this unified doctrine -