Sandemar

Protected since: 1997

Size: 390 hectares of which land 227 hectares

Character: mixed forest, meadow and pasture and wetland,

Municipality: Haninge

**Owners : Sandemars fideikomiss and Haninge municipality

Trustee: County Administrative Board

Form of protection : nature reserve

Other: Natura 2000 area Sandemar SE0110015

By bus: Take the bus from Gullmarsplan or the Handen bus terminal (Handenterminalen at Haningen centrum) towards Dalarö and get off at Svärdsnäsviken bus stop, or Sandemar if you are visiting the fens. Both stops are just outside the reserve, by its entrances. For current information on bus routes and schedules, visit SL.se

By car: From Route 73, take the exit towards Dalarö. After 15 km, take a right at the sign for "naturreservat Sandemar" into the parking lot. To get to the calcareous fens, continue on Dalarövägen road for a little over 2 km (past the manor house and the gravel quarry) and turn right onto a small unmarked road just after the gravel quarry. From the small parking lot, follow a path down to the beach and the fens.

In order to protect the Sandemar nature reserve, please respect the following rules.

Within the reserve, it is forbidden to:

1. during the period of March 1 to August 31, traverse the area marked on the Sandemar reserve map as protected for birds (“Fågelskyddsområde” in Swedish),
2. throughout the entire year, operate a boat or other watercraft within the area of Svärdnäsviken bay that is marked on the Sandemar reserve map,
3. destroy or damage rock, soil or stone by drilling, cutting, blasting, carving, digging, painting or similar,
4. break branches, fell or in any other way damage living or dead trees or bushes or damage the vegetation in general by digging up shrubs, herbaceous plants, grasses, mosses and lichens or remove fungi growing on wood,
5. disturb wildlife (e.g. by climbing nesting trees, trapping or killing mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians),
6. bring dogs that are not on a leash,
7. camp for more than two consecutive nights,
8. make a fire outside of designated sites,
9. park a motorhome or drydock a boat,
10. put up a message board, placard, poster, sign or make inscriptions,
11. operate motorised vehicles or bicycle off-road.

Rules 1-2 do not apply to landowners and their families, national or municipal officials on duty or maintenance staff working on behalf of the nature conservation administration that manages the area.