Ikea bought 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to protect it from development
By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Updated 0602 GMT (1402 HKT) January 31, 2021
A forest near the Altamaha River Basin in southeast Georgia.
(CNN)An investment group of Swedish retail giant Ikea has acquired forestland in southeast Georgia to protect the land and its diverse ecosystems from development.
The Ingka Group, which owns and operates most Ikea stores, purchased 10,840 acres of land near the Altamaha River Basin, the company announced on January 14.
"We truly believe responsible forest management is possible and we see that a large part of our responsibility towards the land we own -- and by extension the planet -- is to restore forests and plant more than we harvest," Ingka Investments managing director Krister Mattsson told CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/31/us/ikea-forest-georgia-protect-trnd-scn/index.html
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