Forest Diversity and Protection

Legal protection and voluntary conservation areas

• National parks and nature reserves together comprise 4.3 million hectares, which corresponds to roughly 10 % of Sweden’s total land area
• Of that amount, 795,000 hectares consist of legally protected productive forest land
• In addition, habitat protection areas account for more than 22,000 hectares and nature conservation agreements account for 32,000 hectares were over 49,000 hectares are productive forest land
• Voluntary conservation areas comprise another 1.1 million hectares

Valuable habitats and diversity

• On small-scale forestry holdings, some 54,000 key habitats are registered by the
  Swedish Forest Agency. They comprise a total of approx. 167,000 hectares, of which 141,000 hectares are productive forest land
• According to the Swedish Species Information Centre, there are 4,127 redlisted species
  in Sweden, of which more than half are forest dwellers