Beer maker BrewDog has a Scottish forest after failed plantings and current losses have made the company abandon this particular route to ‘negative carbon’.

Brew Dog acquired the Kinrara Estate five years ago, a former grouse moor, with plans of planting millions of trees. The trees in the first planting, however, died and as the company looked to cut costs the area has been sold on to Oxygen Conservation.

On the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, Kinrara is a 9,200-acre estate of forests, moorland, peat bogs, rivers, and lochs, and the new owners will use the area to create carbon credits for offsetting, adding to to its existing portfolio to build a 12 estate and 50,000 acres bank.

Oxygen Conservation has stated that: “Kinrara represents one of Scotland’s most ambitious opportunities for large-scale ecological restoration. By combining woodland creation, peatland recovery, and biodiversity enhancement, we aim to demonstrate how a landscape can be transformed to deliver for nature, climate, and people, creating a resilient model of regeneration that can inspire projects across the country.”

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