media are dominated by cries of anguish when autocrats turn 'populists' overnight through some form of divine enlightenement, and decide to expropriate large 'underused' expat/absentee properties, but the idea of big nothern NGOs buying huge swaths of land in developing countries (the sort that 'behave themselves') to 'protect it', 'save it' and other divine interventions, could it also be a form of expropriation?