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SCALING CONSERVATION

A Highland estate reimagined.

Look up from the farmhouse garden and the hills rise immediately above you: vast, open, and largely treeless. This is the Scottish Highlands as most people know it: bare, dramatic, and elemental. What is less visible, until you know what to look for, is that this landscape is not wild. It is depleted.

Invergeldie Estate spans 11,700 acres at the head of Glen Lednock in Perthshire. For generations it was managed for traditional Highland sporting purposes and hill farming: sheep grazing, deer, muirburn, predator control. Generations of intensive land use have left the landscape ecologically simplified: largely without woodland, lacking the structural diversity it once had, its peatlands damaged and its rivers running through open ground that was once forested valley.

Oxygen Conservation acquired Invergeldie with a clear and long-term intention: to restore the natural systems of this vast Highland estate, rebuild its biodiversity, and demonstrate what a modern Highland estate can and should look like in a world that urgently needs landscapes like this to do more.

What we're doing

Woodland and Peatland Restoration

Over 1.5 million diverse native trees are being planted across the estate, reconnecting fragmented habitats and reintroducing the woodland structure and ecological diversity once characteristic of the Highland glen. Alongside this, degraded peatlands across the higher ground are being rewetted and restored: moving the landscape from a carbon emitter back toward a functioning, living carbon sink. As both systems recover they will regulate water, support specialist species, and improve ecological connectivity across the entire catchment.

Renewable Energy

Alongside nature restoration, Invergeldie has the potential to contribute to the UK’s clean energy transition. We are exploring the development of a carefully designed onshore wind project that works in harmony with the wider landscape strategy, reflecting our belief that climate solutions must operate at multiple levels simultaneously.

People and Place

Invergeldie’s built environment is central to its vision. Through the careful refurbishment of the estate’s traditional buildings we are creating a high-quality, low-impact ecotourism offering that allows visitors to experience a landscape actively in recovery. The farmhouse also supports local employment, ensuring that Invergeldie remains a lived-in, working landscape as it evolves.

MINIMISING OUR FOOTPRINT

Not just sustainable, but regenerative practices.

We eagerly anticipate your arrival at Invergeldie, where you can witness our ambitious landscape-scale conservation vision firsthand, engage with nature as it flourishes back to full health, and indulge in the luxurious comforts provided by our sustainable and regenerative practices. Like all our ecotourism offerings, we are committed to minimising our footprint as much as possible.

 

  • Our cleaning supplies and toiletries are all as environmentally friendly as possible, and we ensure that our on-site team utilise sustainable and eco-friendly practices.

  • We source as many ingredients as possible from the local area, or even the estate itself.

  • Invergeldie burn provides fresh drinking water, and we recycle as much as possible.

  • In terms of transportation, EV charging points are also available on-site.