KEY FINDINGS  
       

Europe
Sweden

 

Land area (CIA Fact book) - 410,934 km2
Estimated population 2005 (CIA Fact book) - 9,001,774

Total forest area 2000 (WRI) - 271,340 km2
Natural forest area 2000 (WRI) - 265,650 km2
Annual % forest cover change 1990-2000 (WRI) - no data

Key Findings

Forest zone (zone of analysis) - 85.8% country area
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) area - 11,480 km2
% of forest zone occupied by IFL - 3.0%
% world IFL located in country - 0.1%
% of IFL areas located in strict protected areas (WDPA) - 76.2%

IFL forest density assessment

% Closed forests, Open forests and Non-forest ecosystems inside IFL and outside IFL

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Intact Forest Landscapes borders - Google Earth KMZ-file:
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Intact Forest Landscapes borders - ArcView SHP-file:
Block 4 (548 kb)


Intact Forest Landscapes borders - TIFF-file:
Block 4 (8 580 kb)

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Authors

Based on "Remaining Wildlands of the Northern Forests" (GFW, 2002, unreviewed draft)

Initial data was produced by Filip Hájek (Swedish University of Agicultural Sciences)

Updated by P. Potapov (Greenpeace)

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