Natural Capital Report - 2021

Our first Natural Capital Report has uncovered some interesting and unexpected conclusions, including that the Bunloit Estate is a source of carbon emissions, and the discovery of lichen communities of international importance.

Summary

Over the past six months, the team has been working with a range of partner organisations to create an inventory of carbon and biodiversity within the highly diverse habitats of the 511 hectare Bunloit estate. We have used some of the best modelling tools and suppliers available today. Through this work, we aim to develop standardised monitoring protocols that can be repeated on a regular basis, at all of our rewilding projects, to build on the baseline work and quantify the impact of land-management interventions aiming to boost carbon sequestration and biodiversity gain. 

In the first Natural Capital Report, we hope the evidence shines through that the process of returning to the natural state we seek, will render the landscape quantifiably better at sequestering carbon and building biodiversity than the estate is today. Our aim is to use that process to help make nature-based solutions more investible than they currently seem to be, quicker than would otherwise have been the case. 

The Natural Capital Report covers the methodologies used, results found and land management plans going forward.