The different map layers consist partly of Forest Monitor's 1.0 layer with potential older forest and continuity forest in southern Sweden, which is classified into three classes based on known and open data on whether the forests contain high conservation values or probable conservation values. Note! This first version contains an overestimation of the area of older forest, but at the same time also an underestimation of forests with high conservation values. The maping of Kalmar County and Örebro County has been refined and has a lower degree of error. In addition to our own data, there are modified versions of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) layers with corresponding data for the northern part of the country, which are then classified by Skogsmonitor into the same three conservation value classes. For the counties of Norrbotten, Dalarna, Jämtland, Västernorrland and Västerbotten, the mapping has been made more precise by the EPA/Metria and contains fewer errors, this also applies to the sub-alpine forests. The map layers also include data from the Swedish Forest Agency and the EPA which show, for example, formally protected forests and logging notifications (forests planned to be clear-cut/logged). Please note that there is a time lag and a margin of error which means that newer clear-cuts and loggings that have not been detected by the Swedish Forest Agency for some time may appear as older forest in our and the EPA's data.
Logging notification statistics
Monitor - Alarm
Right now, tens of thousands of hectares of forest are notified for final felling (planned to be clear-cut), within the mapped area of forest with high conservation values or probable conservation values!
ATTENTION! This is an underestimation, as the 1.0 version of the mapping does not contain all known natural and conservation values.
Current logging notifications throughout the country:
High conservation values:
40179 hectares
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Probable conservation values:
18071 hectares
By county:
Stockholm County:
Uppsala county:
Södermanland County:
Östergötland County:
Jönköping County:
Kronoberg county:
Kalmar County:
County of Gotland:
Blekinge county:
Skåne County:
Halland County:
Västra Götaland County:
Värmland County:
Örebro County:
Västmanland County:
Dalarna County:
Gävleborg County:
Västernorrland County:
Jämtland County:
Västerbotten County:
Norrbotten County:
HCV in hectares:
751
284
305
255
216
101
154
90
52
163
65
493
758
150
234
874
474
448
14423
18407
1401
PCV in hectares:
478
994
676
557
250
149
1351
602
83
414
34
768
835
117
541
725
924
2348
3124
1917
1165
POF in hectares:
5934
8325
8385
10529
10547
8062
16231
1001
4597
7469
4785
25642
18525
5947
6188
11390
14381
13038
17482
22049
15719
Photo: Björn Olin
Forest monitor
This map service presents map layers with potential older forest and continuity forest that have, may have, or are likely to have high conservation values.
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