This is just one of thousands of things a land "owner" has to deal with. If you expect to buy a piece of land and own it like some South African dictator then you only have yourself to blame.

In some countries you get to deal with fun things like the town threatening to tear down your grandparents house because it was no longer attached to a farm, long after everything else around it was converted to a residential area. No need for researchers to fuck you over.