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Somewhat related. IKEA is the largest owner of forests in Lithuania (around 33% of the total land area is forest): https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/110
by fy20 6y ago
Somewhat related. IKEA is the largest owner of forests in Lithuania (around 33% of the total land area is forest):
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1104260/ikea-the-biggest-forest-owner-in-lithuania https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1104260/ikea-the-bi...
At the time of this article (2019), they owned 66,000 acres of forest in the country.
- melomal 6y agoDamn, love these little/random facts about my mother country.
- oblio 6y agoWell, if it helps, they're the biggest land (forest?) owner in Romania, too. They own something like 50 000 hectares. It's probably not 1/3rd of Romania, we're a bit bigger :-p
- trymas 6y agoOP meant, that LTU has about 1/3rd of forests of it's land area. Ikea is the biggest owner of forests at 270sq.km. Whole LTU area is around ~65000sq.km., i.e. forests a bit more than 20000sq.km.
- oblio 6y agoYeah, I understood that. I was just saying that Ikea owns a lot of forests in Romania, too.
- trymas 6y agoFor someone who does not know how much is an acre: 66k acres is ~27k hectares or 270sq.km.
- perilunar 6y ago> 66k acres is ~27k hectares That's a strange way to put it. More obviously, 1 acre ~= 0.4 hectares or ~4000 m² Alternatively, 1 hectare ~= 2.5 acres
- dmurray 6y agoThis seems a little misleading. 66,000 acres would be 270 sq km, 33% of the country is 22,000 sq km so IKEA owns just over 1% of the forested land. IKEA is the largest private forester but most of Lithuania's forests are owned by the state [0] and overseen by various state bodies, some of whom operate them as commercial concerns including, almost certainly, selling timber to IKEA. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_in_Lithuania https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_in_Lithuania
- Darmody 6y agoI don't think he means IKEA owns 33% of the forest. 33% is the total percentage of forest and IKEA is the bigger single owner of forests. Two separate statements.
- dmurray 6y agoSure. But it really means IKEA is the biggest single owner of forests, apart from the owner who owns 40 times as much as IKEA does.
- resu_nimda 6y agoLithuania is about 16 million acres, so that would be about 0.4% which is a lot but doesn’t seem too far out of the ordinary. There are 50,000 and 60,000 acre tracts owned by separate logging companies near me, and that’s a small part of one county in northern California. Point being that 10,000 acres isn’t actually as much land as it sounds like, when it comes to forest land.