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 had a great time at the Newstead Sundials Festival yesterday and loved our wee spot down 'The Yiddy' - surrounded by nature, and sited next to our friends from the Scottish Wildlife Trust Central Borders and Connecting Threads: Tweed River Culture
Our bright green gazebo is becoming a regular site at Borders events and festivals, and it was lovely to see so many familiar faces (and many new ones).
It was a wonderful opportunity to share news of our ongoing projects including Wild Your Space (which includes our famous microgrant), Young Rewilders Forum, Selkirk Nature Network, Junior Rangers, Red Squirrel Restoration Network and more. We also gave away over 50 native wildflower plants (FREE) to good homes, where they will help people to attract more pollinators and other wildlife into their gardens.
There is just over one week to go before our inaugural presentation and discussion about Nature Restoration (in the Borders and beyond).
Join us in Stow on the 11th of September to find out more about the work being done to improve biodiversity. And importantly, how this is being carried out whilst respecting a whole range of views and opinions from the many diverse sections of our community.
Join us at Deer Park on Wednesday 2nd September for a morning of learning about pollinators, and how we can contribute to their important monitoring schemes 🐝
This will be followed by another session at Deer Park on Saturday 5th September discussing how climate change has affected our animal species, including the chance for some sweep netting! 🦋
Links to book for both events will be in the comments. Hope to see you there!
🔥🌿 A successful morning exploring wildfire resilience at Deer Park 🌿🔥
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our wildfire mitigation walk and talk at Deer Park. It was brilliant to welcome local residents, land managers and nature enthusiasts for an important conversation about reducing wildfire risk in the Scottish Borders.
We heard valuable insights from colleagues at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service on the risks that fires pose to grassland habitats, wildlife and neighbouring communities. Our team also explored the ecological side: how thoughtful habitat management and nature restoration can help create landscapes that are more resilient to fire.
A huge thank you to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, everyone who attended, and all those who helped make the event happen. Together, we can help keep the Borders’ wild places safer, healthier and more resilient.
