Spruce bark beetle infestations have been very high in recent years, especially in forests in southern Sweden. Many nature reserves have also been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency show that more than 5 million cubic metres of spruce have been killed this year alone and that over 32 million cubic metres of spruce have been killed since 2018. The Swedish Forest Agency calls it \"a natural disaster in slow motion\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for the protected areas that have been affected, the greatest difficulties today in dealing with spruce bark beetle are in \u00d6sterg\u00f6tland, S\u00f6dermanland, Stockholm, Uppsala and V\u00e4stmanland. In Dalarna and G\u00e4vleborg counties, infestations are increasing, but the county administrative boards say that the problems are still small. In large parts of G\u00f6taland, the problems are instead decreasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a new report to the Government, the county administrative boards concerned have reported on the measures taken for protected nature in 2022. The summary shows that it is important to both prevent and directly deal with infestations when they are detected. Various tools are also required to find and combat the spruce bark beetle, such as digital technology and remote sensing, but also the use of dogs, drones and helicopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin Sj\u00f6dahl at Kronoberg County Administrative Board, which coordinates the county administrative boards' reporting to the government, says in a comment that the problem is big, but that the authorities now have much better knowledge of the area than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"There are now staff in all the relevant county administrative boards who can 'think like a spruce bark beetle'. Nevertheless, the large number of spruce bark beetles remains a challenge. Unfortunately, in 2022 it has become more and more common that natural values are lost due to the extensive infestation.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Angreppen fr\u00e5n granbarkborre har de senaste \u00e5ren varit mycket stora, framf\u00f6r allt i skogar i s\u00f6dra Sverige. M\u00e5nga naturreservat har ocks\u00e5 drabbats. Ny statistik fr\u00e5n Skogsstyrelsen visar att mer \u00e4n 5 miljoner kubikmeter gran har d\u00f6dats bara det h\u00e4r \u00e5ret och att \u00f6ver 32 miljoner kubikmeter gran har d\u00f6dats sedan 2018. Skogsstyrelsen kallar det ”en […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[19,21,18],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-granbarkborre","tag-barkborre","tag-dronare","tag-granbarkborre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}