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SE-851 88 SUNDSVALL
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www.scaskog.com
SCA invests further in nature conservation
“We know that the quality of nature consideration in our forest management is of a
generally high standard. We will now further improve quality through a substantial
investment in resources, partly through adding five nature conservation specialists to
our team, and partly through a thorough inventory of nature qualities in SCA’s
forests,” says Mats Sandgren, president of SCA Skog.
Preserving forest biodiversity is the highest-priority environmental target within SCA’s forest
management. More than 100 000 hectares of productive forest land have been set aside
from forestry for this purpose. An additional 50 000 hectares is managed with special
consideration for nature qualities.
SCA is now further investing in nature conservation through equipping each of the
company’s five forest districts with their own nature conservations specialists and adding a
further conservations specialist to SCA Skog’s central staff.
“Nature conservation work at SCA continues to develop. We are now adding substantial
resources to aid the people working with planning and logging in our forests. We will develop
employees with the right background and proficiency in nature conservation, but we will also
recruit expertise from outside the company,” says Mats Sandgren.
In addition to increasing resources, SCA is also investing in a thorough inventory of nature
qualities in the company’s own forests.
“We know that we have high nature qualities in the forests we have set aside from forestry.
With more detailed knowledge of these forests, we can more efficiently prioritise nature
consideration in our managed forests.”
SCA SKOG is responsible for forestry management of SCA’s extensive forest land, wood procurement to
SCA’s Swedish forest industry operations and is Europe’s largest supplier of forest-based biofuel.
SCA Skog is part of SCA’s Forest Products business area, which produces publication papers for
newspapers, magazines and catalogues, pulp and solid-wood products. SCA Forest Products also offers
cost-efficient transport solutions to SCA'
s units.
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www.scaskog.com
SCA owns 2.6 million hectares of forest land in northern Sweden of which two million
hectares is used for active forestry. All of SCA’s forest land is subject to ecological
landscape planning in which environmental objectives, such as preserving forest biodiversity,
are balanced with forestry for timber production, employing a long-term perspective that
covers more than a century. Integral to this process is more than five per cent of SCA’s
managed forest land which has been set aside from forest management to preserve
biodiversity. Another five per cent of the forest is preserved in providing more localised
nature consideration in fellings and other forest operations.
SCA’s forest management is certified under the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) standard
for responsible forest management since 1999.
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For further information please contact
Mats Sandgren, president SCA Skog, tel. +46 60 19 31 29
Pelle Gemmel, chief forester SCA Skog, tel. +46 60 19 34 53.