1. The Government may, by regulation, establish as an ecological reserve any territory composed of public lands if it considers that measure necessary: a) to preserve such territory in its natural state; b) to reserve such territory for scientific research and, if need be, for education; or, c) to safeguard animal and plant species threatened with disappearance or extinction.
2. A non-farming transferee may be any other person or body who takes over released land to use it for non-agricultural purposes, such as forestry or the creation of ecological reserves, in a manner compatible with protection or improvement of the quality of the environment of the countryside.
