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New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050
(www.theguardian.com)
It will be called the New New Forest.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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The Newer Forest.
Always makes me laugh that the 'New' Forest is getting on for a thousand years old.
A rough visual representation of what ~2500 hectares looks like:
Obviously that's not where it'll be, but it gives a sense of scale, as I had absoutetly no idea what 2500 hectares looks like.
I'm no mathematician, so I passed this request through an AI, and we know how accurate they can be...anyway:
It estimates that we'd need 3.23 billion bananas 🍌 to fill 2500 hectares of space if anyone wants a bananas for scale.
Nice, I'd love to know it in fractions of wales :)
About 7 central parks of manhattan
https://as2.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/79/27/01/1000_F_279270161_PUbMHxns3pGxByjr0NQBghAhK398oSY3.jpg
Bloody Guardian trying to strongarm tracking and ads Great news btw