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# Forming a Protective Belt

It is here, in the underbelly of the Amazon -- and the new developmental frontiers -- that Nemus will set out to acquire rainforest properties to create a protective belt. It is our belief that by strategically acquiring large amounts of land and simultaneously protecting multiple properties, that the belt will create a natural barrier to fend off deforestation within the remaining forest.

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When viewed alongside state and federal parks and Indigenous reservations, a natural barrier is formed making it much more difficult to access the land due to a significant decrease in ingress and egress to the encompassed area. This approach creates greater risk and difficulty for those seeking to take advantage of the land.

![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wyedmjnQ_Hjdh9jOvOVaw07YyvmZNjf1bHsf10t_CrF8njh6JcBd_-21KrHQugP2HpKEpIWdcLNGA1RO808MRfgHRIzMuyBe4BH4AUBQIFBcLNpPATmTzjGmTPoMRjG2S6wVdnQt)

With our team's experience working in the rainforest, each purchase will be made legitimately and in compliance with Brazilian laws pertaining to the ownership of land in the rainforest. 

**Nemus will also work to ensure that these lands can never be sold by implementing a sophisticated legal structure which will impose a non-transferability and non-foreclosure restriction upon such land.**

With this strategy, we will have the opportunity to conserve the land and accelerate efforts to protect even more of this precious natural resource.