Come with us on a journey around the Swedish landscape and countryside – to mountain heaths, surging rivers and spongy mires, into ancient forests, through meadows and oak landscapes all the way out to the Baltic and North Seas and their archipelagos.In this brochure we inform people about society’s commitment to protecting the natural environment. It also gives some examples of areas that have been protected since the Swedish Parliament set environmental objectives in order to achieve a favourable natural environment in Sweden 1999. In the year 1909, the Swedish Parliament passed an act relating to National Parks in order to protect the natural environment for the benefit of science and tourism. Protecting the environment by site protection according to the environmental code is vital in order to preserve valuable nature in Sweden for future generations. Welcome to the natural world!