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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation

A pool of water amid fragments of wood on a moor
Peatland damaged by inappropriate forestry in Caithness and Sutherland. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Private investors are in talks about spending tens of millions of pounds on government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland, the country’s conservation agency has said.

NatureScot said its so-called nature investment partnerships were on course to raise more than £100m for up to 15 projects, as it sought to fend off detailed criticisms of its fundraising efforts by an economics thinktank.

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