Necessary cookies
Cookies needed for the website to work and provide a good and safe user experience.
Analytical cookies
Cookies that are used to analyze how you as a visitor use our website, which in turn helps us to improve the website.
In 2023, the Swedish Forest Agency paid out almost SEK 309 million in infringement compensation to landowners for denied felling permission in montane forests. This is a sharp increase since 2020 when the first few compensation payment totalling SEK 3 million were paid out. At the same time, the low level of the Swedish Forest Agency's establishment of formally protected areas continued in 2023.
In 2023 the roundwood prices on delivery timber increased for sawlogs by 12 per cent and for pulpwood by 37 per cent in comparison to 2022. The prices are volume weighted averages for delivery timber and refer to current prices, which do not take inflation into account.
The latest statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency show that the area notified for felling in December decreased 20 percent, compared to December 2022. The area regarding applications for permits for final felling in montane forests however, increased by 18 percent, compared to the same month last year.
The median contiguous area of regeneration felling was 2.4 hectares in 2022 and the largest 5 percent of contiguous areas of regeneration were 14.7 hectares or larger. Just over 9 percent of the regeneration area was left as environmental consideration areas during the felling seasons 2017/2018 – 2019/2020. The average width of the zones left as consideration areas around water was 11 metres and the proportion of the shoreline that lacked a zone with consideration areas was 29 percent.
The latest statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency show that the area notified for felling in November decreased by 1 percent, compared to November 2022. The area regarding applications for permits for final felling in montane forests however, increased three-fold, compared to the same month last year.
In 2022, 30 200 people were employed in forestry, which is at the same level as in 2021. Occupational accidents in forestry decreased during 2022.
According to the Swedish Forest Agency's inventory, the proportion of known cultural heritage sites affected by regeneration felling is still at a historically low level.
Statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency show that 80 percent of the annual harvested forest area has been regenerated to the levels stipulated by the Forestry Act. This is a decrease with four percentage points compared with results from 2022, and the lowest approval figure in ten years.
The latest statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency show that the area notified for felling in October decreased by just under 1 percent, compared to October 2022. The area regarding applications for permits for final felling in montane forests decreased, to near half the area, compared to the same month last year.
On 30 September, stocks of softwood sawlogs amounted to 2.1 million cubic metres, according to the Swedish Forest Agency's survey. Stocks have not been this low since the measurement started in 2013.