Voluntary agreements for protection of e.g. unmanaged forests are possible also in Denmark.22 The forest owner will receive compensation for protecting forest with high biodiversity values. The voluntary agreement does not result in any restrictions regarding access to the areas. Numbers show that approximately up to 87% of the species classified as threatened in Norway are so because of land-use change.23 The Nature Diversity Act is an important environmental legislation in Norway and the legislation covers the conservation of biological-, landscape- and geological-diversity. According to the Statistics Norway (2013) protected areas cover more than 95,250 km2 of the land, which is equivalent to 25% of the total area.