In 1989, the
World Land Trust began purchasing plots of land in the
Amazon rainforest in order to protect them from
illegal logging and
deforestation. However, this differed from Alice's Meadow in that the land was not offered directly to supporters but held by the Trust. In 2009,
Greenpeace began a similar campaign with 'Airplot', a small meadow in
Sipson, a village which would be demolished under plans for the
construction of a third runway for
London Heathrow. In this instance the prohibitive land registration charges associated with micro-plots were avoided by employing the legal concept of
beneficial ownership. The land was sold back to its original owner in 2012. == See also ==