Buy it to close! A Swedish billionaire gobbled up a timber trading company to order a "stop slicing" 1 million acres of Amazons. 🌳🛑

Buy it to close! Swedish billionaires gobble up a timber trading company to order a "stop slicing" 1 million acres of Amazons. 🌳🛑

What happens when a billionaire buys a large logging company?..Just to turn off all the sawn switches and let the trees continue to grow!

This is a groundbreaking nature conservation story when a Swedish billionaire decided to acquire a timber company that occupied 400,000 acres (or about 1 million acres!) of Amazonian forest. 🇸🇪

But instead of cutting wood to make a huge profit, he ordered to "stop" all operations and turn this land into a forest that is forbidden to touch. 🚫🪚

Why would he do that?

The Amazon Forest is like the lungs of the earth. 🌍 It absorbs a huge amount of carbon dioxide, and is also home to a wonderful biodiversity of thousands of species of plants and animals. 🐒🦜

The order to stop motor saws this time is not just to preserve trees, but to protect wildlife homes and prevent deforestation in areas facing crises from logging and deforestation.

Today, conservation projects from the private sector on such a large scale are becoming increasingly important because protecting rainforest ecosystems is one of the keys to helping our planet fight climate change and preserve the planet's most abundant environment. 💚🌿

What do friends think of this kind of "get rich and buy to keep" solution? Comment, tell us! 👇

The Swedish billionaire pictured is Johan Eliasch, a businessman and CEO of the famous sports equipment brand Head. In 2005, he bought the Gethal logging company, which occupies over 400,000 acres (about 1 million acres) of concessions in the Amazon Forest. The main purpose was not to profit from logging, but to "buy to end all logging" and preserve this area.

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