Kyle House is part of WildLand, an ambitious landscape-scale conservation effort with the aim of restoring, protecting and enhancing over 200,000 acres of wild land across the Scottish Highlands.
Your direct contribution to the land.
By staying at Kyle House, you are directly contributing to WildLand’s 200 year mission to preserve and grow natural ecosystems across the Scottish Highlands. Rentals such as Kyle House are an important component of this work, helping to contribute to conservation efforts as well as raising awareness of this globally unique habitat.
Our ethos.
At Wildland we believe in nature’s own capacity to restore itself and appreciate that this is a project extending far beyond our own lifetimes. The regeneration of this wilderness will demand timescales more likely to be enjoyed in our children’s lifetime than in ours, but we know that we can help create the conditions necessary to allow natural processes to gain a foothold. It’s a simple fact that many estates across the Highlands have populations of deer far beyond that which the ecosystem can support. Deer browse young saplings before they have any chance to establish themselves. On land where our deer management is in hand, the regeneration of habitat and woodland has been nothing short of remarkable. The heart soars when the rebirth of these lands sees wildlife return. Sounds of rivers rushing and a sight of summer swallows swooping all suggests a soul stirring with eager vitality.
Preservation.
Alongside our stated commitment to the preservation of the land and the human infrastructure of the WildLand estates, we increasingly find ourselves the guardian of significant parts of Scotland’s history. We see preservation as protection, restoration and renewal; the past alive for present and future generations to enjoy.
Across Wildland’s northern estates are some of the most striking brochs on the Scottish mainland. These two-thousand-year old archaeological structures demand not just our protection but also our care and attention. There’s more recent history too. Eriboll Estate still bears the legacy of 18th century lime kilns built by one of the old Dukes of Sutherland, while Loch Eriboll was a scene of sadness a century later when a Highland Clearances ship drove into its sheltered waters to take people from the Sutherland Estates away from the land, never to return.
