BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday rejected foreign proposals to buy and preserve land in the endangered Amazon, just weeks before its negotiators were due to present their own rainforest protection plan at global climate talks.
"The Amazon is the heritage of the Brazilian people, and it is not for sale," Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and Environment Minister Marina Silva said in a signed article on the opinion page of Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.
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