SOUTH BUNLOIT, ON LOCH NESS

NatureProsperity Resilience Reserve

A working laboratory for the Nature Prosperity Pump. Owned by the founder, managed by Highlands Rewilding

168 ha

HIGHLAND LAND UNDER MANAGEMENT

2.1 km

OF LOCH NESS SHORE

½ the loch

OFFSHORE ON THIS STRETCH

WHAT IT IS

A place to prove the pump on the ground

South Bunloit is the first NatureProsperity Resilience Reserve: 168 hectares of Highland land, including 2.1 km of Loch Ness shore and half the loch offshore along this stretch. Owned by the founder, managed by Highlands Rewilding.

It holds multiple habitats in close proximity: native woodland, heathland, pasture, peatland, and riparian. That diversity makes it an ideal site for natural-capital credit verification research, and for a working farm-and-hamlet that exemplifies a healthy rural economy with the research to accelerate it.

ON THE RESILIENCE RESERVE

Six things, in one place

Scenic view of lush green trees, flowering bushes, and distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

A patchwork of habitats

Native woodland, heathland, pasture, peatland, riparian — all within the reserve boundary. Ideal for natural-capital credit verification research.

Three people volunteering in nature, planting a tree by a lochan under a cloudy sky, two men and one woman, with the woman wearing a high-visibility vest.

Regenerative agriculture, with the community

On the pasture, and a farm-and-hamlet exemplar of a healthy rural economy. Joint ventures with the local community are starting now: vegetable growing and fruit in an embryonic food forest.

A yurt situated in a rural retreat area, in a hilly autumn landscape with trees and shrubs, overlooking Loch Ness in the background.

Woodland, premium carbon, biodiversity credits

New planting for sales of premium carbon. Ecologists use multiple technologies and techniques for future sales of biodiversity credits, and the verification science behind them. Watch films here.

A man in a hat operating a drone with a surveying drone flying overhead, conducting biodiveristy surveys. A white car parked on a rural road, and a laptop set on a backpack in a scenic countryside with mountains and a partly cloudy sky.

Data, AI, and a digital twin

Data collected from land and air. AI-led processing aiming to build a valuable digital twin, first for this reserve, later for the entire pump, across multiple projects.

A serene landscape rednder, overlooking Loch Ness with Timber-rich affordable homes, in a landscape being restored, part of the Bunloit Resilience Reserve

Net-positive timber homes

Planned for team and local community members. Monitored for building physics, to accelerate a wider campaign that helps abate the national housing emergency.

A group of eight people gathered outside a large yurt, sitting on a wooden platform with some cushions. They are enjoying food and drinks on a sunny day, surrounded by trees and greenery.

Retreats, mindfulness, prescriptive medicine

The Bunloit yurt hosts eco-tourist stops on tours, and retreats by a local mindfulness group reporting excellent results helping with mental-health issues. A potential future research target: nature immersion as preventative and prescribed medicine, monetised at national scale.

“This is where the pump runs first. Everything proved here, the rest of the portfolio can build on.”

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