Cases / Tree planting · Sweden · 2020–2025
Land sales and logging on Sami reindeer pasture in Sweden, NGO reports
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Global Forest Coalition reported that 10,400 ha were sold in Sami areas of Sweden, including more than 2,000 ha of reindeer pasture, and that 400 ha of forest were logged in 32 forests. For nature, the stake is forest cover and the grazing land that reindeer herders depend on.
What?
Global Forest Coalition reported that 10,400 ha were sold in Sami areas of Sweden, and that 400 ha of forest were logged in 32 forests. Global Forest Coalition
Where?
Sami areas of Sweden Global Forest Coalition
When?
Reported by Global Forest Coalition in April 2020. Global Forest Coalition
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
- Sami reindeer herders — more than 2,000 ha of pasture within the land sold, per Global Forest Coalition Global Forest Coalition
Harmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Land was sold and forests were logged, per Global Forest Coalition. Global Forest Coalition
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
Global Forest Coalition reported in April 2020 that 10,400 ha were sold, including more than 2,000 ha of pasture.
The same report said 400 ha of forest had been logged across 32 forests.
Earthsight reported that 13 companies had been investigated in 27 years of FSC certification, about 0.02% of more than 44,000 certificate holders.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record Buyers of the land and the companies that logged it are not named in the sources reviewed.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: logging in Sami territory without Sami consent, cited to an ASI/FSC investigation of February 2025; no source link is on record for it.
- None on record Studies listed in the sources reviewed (Rana and Sills 2024, FSC; Utrecht/Nature 2024) concern large mammals in FSC-certified forests; their findings are not stated in the sources reviewed.
- Unclear Whether the land sale went ahead and the current status of the forests are not stated in the sources reviewed.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts— Press and investigations✓ Communities and civil society— Researchers
Communities and civil society
- Sami logging SwedenGlobal Forest Coalition · 2020-04-22
- FSC statement on Earthsight reportFSC (via Eco-Business) · 2020
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