IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed

Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by pelasaco on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:16AM (#25926398)

well, in first place Brazil (or Peru, Suriname, etc) should be wanting to sell or rent it. Which they aren't. Second, it won't help to buy or rent it if there is no control in the region. Third, Europe together with China are the biggest market of illegal wood. France has a high military presence on the French Guyana, and they could definitely pass intelligence to some navy to catch the boats leaving Brazil/Suriname towards Europe. So it's not matter of who owns it but if all nations actually want to fight the black market around illegal wood and biopiracy, which they clearly don't want.

References:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-biopiracy/brazil-t...

https://www.dw.com/en/wood-laundering-brings-illegal-amazon-...

http://www.globaltimber.org.uk/ChinaIllegalImpExp.htm

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by pelasaco on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:28AM (#25926487)

I remember when I served in the region, we did some exercises together with the 3rd regiment of the French Legion, and they had even a sea operation force that could definitely work on that if Macron could do more than Virtue Signaling on Twitter about this matter

Reference:

https://twitter.com/emmanuelmacron/status/116461700896252723...

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by andy_ppp on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:45AM (#25927527)

Everyone has a price... it’d just be interesting to calculate the total cost of purchasing and enforcement. Probably into the tens of billions per year? More? Once there is a figure people might think it’s worth doing or not.

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