Map tool for SCA's forests
Our map shows SCA’ s land holdings in Sweden. This includes our voluntarily set asides and our five Conservation Parks.
In the set-asides, we show forest age, the main tree species and the most common type of ground vegetation. The areas include forests that are managed with adapted methods to improve conditions for biodiversity and the also SCA’s five Conservation parks.
Welcome to our forests! Use this map to discover your own gems in the countryside.
Biodiversity
Preserving the forest’s biodiversity in terms of flora and fauna is the single most important sustainability goal in our forestry management. We have taken inventory of our forests to identify the forests with the highest conservation values that are most important for sensitive animals and plants. These forests are then exempted from forestry operations in our ecological landscape plans.
Other forests are managed using combined goals. Special consideration is taken here to improve conditions for flora and fauna. We burn forest for animals and plants that need burnt wood or burnt land. We promote broad-leaved forest for species that require such conditions. Where appropriate, forest is managed using continuous cover methods. In total, more than 200,000 hectares of forest are exempt from standard forestry management or are managed using combined goals that aim to provide the best possible conditions for biodiversity.
Nature conservation is also given a key role in the forests we manage for timber production. For example, one in five trees in our forests are left to live, die a natural death and provide living space for all of the forest’s species.
Can SCA's forests be reclassified?
Yes, we can reclassify our forests. Based on our continuous inventories, we make new assessments of our forests over time. This could lead to forests previously evaluated to have lower conservation values will be reclassified as areas with higher value, prompting new designations. Similarly, a forest previously classified as a voluntary set-aside may be assessed as having lower conservation value and therefore might be reclassified. These processes are an important part of our planning to ensure we take the right actions in the right places. This means that the map will change over time.
Prioritization of measurements
Under the page Ecological landscapeplanning you can read more about how we work with our forest holdings from a landscape perspective and over the long term. There we describe the work with, for example, conservation areas to benefit and develop biological diversity and be able to deploy the right measures in the right place. Our page Nature conservation and consideration also give you information about conservation areas and our other nature conservations actions.
Read about SCA's work with ecological landscapeplanning
Read about SCA's work with Nature conservation and consideration
See more set-aside and protected forest in Sweden
On Skogsindustrierna's website there is a map showing SCA's and five other large forest owners' voluntary set-aside forest. The map also shows the formal forms of protection by the state. The page is only in Swedih.
