The Bunloit Model

Paper for the Institute of Directors Scotland - Highlands and Islands Investment Forum 2021.

Summary

The Bunloit Project aims to create a nature reserve optimally sequestering carbon, growing biodiversity, creating green jobs, and generating profit-for-purpose in the process. Our first operational site is the 1,200 acre Bunloit estate in Inverness-shire. This, a woodland-dominated terrain, and our next acquisition, a pasture-dominated terrain (details pending), will become open-air laboratories for natural-capital verification-science.

We are endeavouring to become a world leader in accelerating the nature-based solutions that can help humankind defeat the existential threats of climate meltdown and biodiversity collapse, meanwhile helping to rebuild ailing national and local economies post-covid. This paper describes how we hope to do that, how we have financed our rewilding projects so far, and how we plan to do so going forward.

Critical to that financing will be an international crowdfunding campaign in the runup to the November 2021 COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. If this is successful, it will enable mass ownership by nature-recovery advocates of growing tracts of rewilding land in the Highlands of Scotland, and help show how a rural green new deal can help a nation build economic resilience post-covid while making a major contribution to the reversal of global environmental crisis.

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