Peatlands cover just 3% of the world’s land area, yet store at least 550 billion tonnes of carbon, more than all the world’s forests combined. Formed over millennia under waterlogged conditions, peat soils lock carbon away on geological timescales, making…
Spring 2026
When restoring land, one question returns again and again: When do we step back and let nature run its course, and when do we step in to protect what’s already there? This balance between allowing change, even stepping in to…
Spring 2026
I don’t post much. Partly because I’ve been so busy, and partly because I wasn’t sure I had earned the right to say much yet. I’m still not entirely sure — but two years feels like a reasonable moment to…
Spring 2026
Some landscapes feel alive in an obvious way. Others ask you to slow down before they reveal themselves. Peatlands are like that. I remember, as a boy, stepping out of the wind into a peat hag to have my lunch…
Spring 2026
Have you ever stood in a place so still, so full of possibility, that it felt as though the earth beneath your feet was pausing waiting to see whether you’d be brave enough to help it recover? That was me…
Spring 2026
I spent many happy hours crouched on the bank of a river as a child, peering into the shallows with a net in my hand, heart pounding at what I might find beneath the water’s surface? For me, it began…
Spring 2026
Walking into the first open field Manor Farm, our Estate in Norfolk, I was immediately struck by the horizon: flat, endless, with a huge sky stretched above me. In the east, the sun began to rise, glowing like fire. Then…
Spring 2026
At the launch of our first book, Scaling Conservation: The Business of Restoring the Wild, our team took to the stage for a live Q&A with some of the sharpest minds in the natural capital space. Among the many insightful…
Winter 2026
As we look at the world today, we face a dual reality. On one side, we see a worsening planetary crisis—climate change is accelerating, public discourse often feels stagnant, and governments around the world continue to fail in taking meaningful…
Winter 2026
Scottish Forestry has approved plans by Oxygen Conservation to deliver and manage a large-scale native woodland creation at Invergeldie Estate near Comrie, restoring more than 2,500 acres of upland landscape through the planting of approximately 1.5 million native broadleaf trees. The approval…
Winter 2026
When I am privileged enough to be out on one of our estates at first light, before anything else has started making noise, I’m looking for what the deer have left behind. Not trophies. Not signs of “success”. Stories. A…
Winter 2025
From woodland to peatland, the acquisition unlocks a new era of restoration and innovation in one of the UK’s most iconic landscapes. Leading natural capital asset manager Oxygen Conservation is proud to announce that it has acquired Kinrara Estate, a…
Winter 2025
