Oxygen Conservation has acquired 23,000 acres in Scotland using what is believed to be the largest conservation-focused commercial debt package in the UK to date.

With the backing of a £20.55m loan facility from Triodos Bank UK, Oxygen Conservation prioritises working with local communities and forming strategic partnerships to ensure its plans meet the needs of the environment and the people who depend on it.

Rich Stockdale, MD of Oxygen Conservation, said: “It’s only by creating these types of funding packages and frameworks with respected financial institutions that people can have the confidence to allow private finance to flow into natural capital at scale - thereby funding the protection of the natural world.”

Founded in June 2021, with the specific aim of tackling climate change and the biodiversity crisis, Oxygen Conservation works to protect and improve natural assets, generating a positive economic return as a result of its work. It seeks to achieve this through the delivery of a diverse range of projects, including regenerative agriculture, carbon sequestration through woodland and peatland restoration, renewable energy generation, sustainable housing, and eco-tourism.

The new sites are the latest additions to the portfolio of owned and managed conservation sites. This also includes the Leighon Estate in Dartmoor, Wood Advent Farm in Exmoor, Esgair Arth, near Aberaeron in Wales, Swineley in the Yorkshire Dales, and a stretch of the Firth of Tay, near Dundee.

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