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Bright Green Nature is a nature restoration charity based in the Scottish Borders.

We are thrilled to launch our new website with a special gift for you – a Mindful Minute from Deer Park. Please take a moment to pause, breathe, and immerse yourself in the peace of this beautiful place. Notice how it makes you feel and let nature’s calm inspire you.

Our aim is to empower and enable communities to protect nature in the places they love and to restore and protect rare and vulnerable habitats.

We work exclusively at small scale and grass roots level, working alongside communities to restore the places that they value.

We rely on the help of our valued volunteers and partners to achieve our ambitions.

Get in touch to learn how you can join us and help to make a difference.

We restore and protect the health and resilience of natural ecosystems, by:

  • Restoring, protecting and connecting habitats to conserve and improve abundance and resilience of native biodiversity
  • Restoring and protecting ecosystem function, health and resilience
  • Supporting and conducting research into ecosystem restoration practices; dissemination and interpretation of results to benefit nature and people

We connect and engage people with nature, by:

  • Improving the connectivity of people with Nature so that they are motivated to protect it
  • Making nature accessible to all; reaching new audiences through using nature to connect with people in innovative ways
  • Connecting people with their natural and cultural heritage to understand its importance in shaping how we understand nature and how we live with nature in the future
  • Empowering communities and individuals to learn new nature based skills and knowledge, to improve wellbeing and employability

We restore nature at micro to medium scale

  • We believe that to truly engage people, ALL people with rewilding and nature restoration, we must support people in their own spaces

Our work is embedded within communities

  • We live and work here, we are part of the community.
  • People are central to our work, right down to gathering the data we need

We build in an understanding of local heritage and culture in our efforts to recover nature

  • We believe in the importance of sense of place in connecting with nature and the desire to protect and restore it

Our work is based on rigorous scientific evidence and best practice

  • We strive to extend our understanding through research partnerships and always taking an innovative approach
Bright Green Nature
Bright Green Nature1 day ago
👀Have you explored our new website yet? 🌱
You can now find out more about our projects, latest news, and the many ways we’re working with communities to support nature recovery.

👉Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments: https://brightgreennature.org/
Bright Green Nature
Bright Green Nature3 days ago
Bright Green Nature is now accepting applications for its Wild Your Space! microfund, offering grants of up to £350 to help individuals and schools encourage wildlife into their green spaces.
Visit our website for more information, an application form and lots of guidance: https://brightgreennature.org/community-engagement/microgrant/
Bright Green Nature
Bright Green Nature4 days ago
🎉It’s here! 🎉
We’re delighted to launch our brand new Bright Green Nature website.
Explore our projects, find out more about what we do, and discover how you can get involved in supporting nature across the Borders.
👉Visit the new site today and take a look around: https://brightgreennature.org/
🙏Please share and spread the word!
Bright Green Nature
Bright Green Nature5 days ago
Summer nature sessions for 11-15 year olds in Selkirk.

Climate change is affecting landscapes right here in the Borders. This summer, we're looking for a team of 11-15 year-olds to join us in Selkirk to get out in to the wild, see what's actually happening, and learn how we can help nature to adapt. You'll be the researchers and the dam builders. You'll be setting camera traps and getting dirty. You'll be the nature force!

Bright Green Nature and Scottish Borders Climate Action Network are collaborating to bring you these exciting sessions as part of the Climate Engagement programme, funded by the The Scottish Government 's Climate Engagement Fund.

Nature force will be held over three sessions (29 July, 5 August and 12 August, 10-3 pm each) please only sign up if you can attend all three sessions!

For more details and to register, please click on the link in the comments below.

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