Fernando Torres can kick a ball about and is worth £50m, apparently.
40,000ha of England's forests, that's 40,000 football pitches, are worth £100m.
Are our values quite right?
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
trimbush - Thanks - that all straightened out then........! A hectare is 100m x 100m and as you say a football pitch is a bit more than 100m by quite a bit less than 100m, but when you add in the grass around the side for throw-ins and allow for the fact that you are allowed a bigger pitch then I'm about right. Is that what you said too?
Just add the £35million for Andy Carroll plus wages for both players. If only we could convince Roman Abramovich to invest in biodiversity. It's the reason I've stopped watching football and one reason why we shouldn't buy the "all in in it together" line and fight the sell off of forests and NNRs and reduction in investment in biodiversity.
It only gets worse. Looking at the map of the Government's plans for the Nation's woodlands I note that both Purbeck (Dorste) and Rendlehsam (Suffolk) are classed as 'small commercial' - ie to be sold to the highest bidder. That's logical - both are boring conifer plantations - but hang on a second - they are also both planted on heathland and first rank sites for restoration back to heathland. A new (forestry) owner might well go on restoring ancient woodland if the grants are right - but what's the chance of a forestry buyer restoring heathland ? Approximately zero - so is the only option RSPB competing on the open market at woodland prices which continue to rocket (one 200 ha wood recently sold for £10,000/ hectare the price of reasonable farmland). So do we want our subs to go to buying something we already own - or tell the Government to act responsibly with OUR, not their, property and get on with delivering restored heathland - and the chance of hitting at least some of our biodiversity goals (thats a nod to your football analogy + we have to remember there are no more targets !)
ARE OUR VALUES RIGHT?
Not wishing to again be accused of “talking rubbish” by our host I have researched the content of his entry “40,000ha of England's forests, that's 40,000 football pitches”
Wiki him say:
“The hectare is widely used throughout the world and is the legal unit of measure in domains concerned with land ownership, planning, and management, including law (land deeds), agriculture, forestry, and town planning throughout the European Union[, The United States, Burma, and to some extent Canada instead use the Imperial measurement unit of area, the acre (1 acre / 0.404686 hectares)
Thus 1 acre = 2.47105 acres
One acre comprises 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet or about 4,046.86 square meters (0.404686 hectares)
One acre is 90.75 percent of a 100 yards (91.44 meters) long by 53.33 yards
It is also approximately 56.68 percent of a 105 metres (344.49 feet) long by 68 meters (223.10 feet) wide Association football pitch (soccer field). It may also be remembered as 44,000 square feet, less 1%; or as the product of 66 x 660”
Are you confusing your ‘perches’ with your ‘pitches’?
What was the question again?