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  • Do we know what the goal was? Was this to protect forest land? Similar to something like this? https://www.nicfi.no/2024/12/10/norway-strengthens-support-o...

    Although I'm not sure what Norway is attempting is actually working - similar to what we see with carbon credits essentially showing no material decrease in greenhouse gas emission growth. Indonesia is going through some of the worst wildfires ever experienced in human history at the moment. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cqevw9y34y34t

    by blondie9x
  • Why does it quote 37,000 acres, then show a picture with a large swath of Sweden highlighted as if that is the area purchased - though Sweden is approximately 111 million acres of land, so this would be 0.003% of the land, so nowhere near the representation in this picture - seem disingenuous to me.
    by theropost
  • If you believe in global threats from AI, global warming, Russia and/or China, this probably isn't a bad place to build a bunker.
    by spankalee
  • I don't know exactly where the land is, but according to media it's south of Storsjö kapell [0]. There's plenty of fell there, and he can't just build whatever he wants even if he owns the land. When a billionaire says he spent $22 million to by it for recreation, I don't see a big reason to not believe him, there's not much else he can use it for.

    It's not far from Funäsdalen which is a relatively popular ski resort [1], there are also hiking trails and similar [2].

    The seller SCA is Europe's biggest private forest owner and owns 2.7 million hectares by the way.

    [0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/hQp2Rw9tM6kWTuTdA

    [1] https://funasdalen.se/en/winter/skiing/cross-country-skiing/

    [2] https://funasdalen.se/en/summer/hiking/

    by sorenjan
  • $600/acre for timber forest???

    I had no idea Sweden was this cheap. Why wouldn't he drop $22mm on this...

    by bpodgursky
  • He's a huge cross country skier so he probably wants his own little playground
    by dylanz
  • That’s a strange map in the article. It makes it looks like he’s bought all of Härjedalen, rather than two orders of magnitude less. It’s still a chunky piece of land, but it’s definitely not that big.
    by robin_reala
  • Note that the red area on the map in the article is Härjedalen, which has an area of 11,405 km^2, 1.1M hectares, 2.8M acres.

    The purchased forest (15k hectares, 37k acres) is therefore ~1.3% of the region.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4rjedalen

    by Jabbles

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