Forest Monitor is a unique web service that brings well-founded facts about the Swedish forest to life using a web map, illustrations, graphics, animations, and 3D models.
Forest Monitor is a tool for environmental monitoring and sustainable forest management. It presents several tools to support work on environmental goals and various types of conservation and climate efforts.
Forest Monitor is a tool aimed at all types of stakeholders – forest owners and managers, Sámi villages, environmentally engaged members of the public, tourism entrepreneurs, decision-makers, government officials, environmental consultants, and researchers.
Map of Sweden's Forests
Forest Monitor's map service brings together important map layers of valuable forest environments in one place. It also presents a new comprehensive mapping of potential old forests and continuity forests. The map layers show where forests with high conservation value may exist, including social values and forests with large carbon stocks across Sweden. No one has previously presented a complete collection of open data for this type of forest.
The map service creates better conditions for locating forests with the highest conservation value, as well as landscape areas with concentrations of potential old forests and continuity forests that may be or are forests with high ecological value. This forms the basis for functional landscape planning, which supports forest managers in their conservation efforts: private forest owners, municipalities, forestry companies, government agencies, and others.
Forest Monitor's map service is also for outdoor enthusiasts and for anyone who wants to explore the natural heritage of the north and enjoy the beauty and diversity of Sweden’s most pristine and majestic forests.
The mapping of potential old forests and continuity forests varies in accuracy and probability, and we are continuously working to refine, adjust, validate, and update the data to improve its detail and precision.
This is an open and free map service. However, the data on the site may only be used via our map service unless otherwise agreed.
The data is available for subscription as a paid service via WMS.
How can you contribute
The organization Protect the Forest runs Forestmonitor.eu, but the web service is operated, further developed, and managed entirely through external project funding and donations.
If you find Skogsmonitor useful and important, you are welcome to make a donation to support the continuation and development of the project!
If you’d like to collaborate with us, or for example, if you have ideas for improvements, notice unintentional factual errors or technical bugs, or have suggestions for data or map features that should be included, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. All data on the site are living documents that will be continuously updated and improved.