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
🐿️Bright Green Nature is looking for a new Community Engagement Officer to help drive forward the Red Squirrel Recovery Network (RSRN) across the Scottish Borders. The Borders still hold some of Southern Scotland’s strongest red squirrel populations and many people see them regularly in gardens, parks and woodlands. But the story behind their survival, the pressures they face, the role they play in healthy ecosystems and the important work happening to protect them, isn't always well known. This role is about changing that.
Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the RSRN is the first project to bring together organisations from both sides of the border to coordinate red squirrel conservation at a landscape scale. As part of this, we’re looking for someone who can help more people feel connected to nature through the story of the red squirrel, especially in communities that are often underrepresented in conservation.
🐿️Bright Green Nature is looking for a new Community Engagement Officer to help drive forward the Red Squirrel Recovery Network (RSRN) across the Scottish Borders. The Borders still hold some of Southern Scotland’s strongest red squirrel populations and many people see them regularly in gardens, parks and woodlands. But the story behind their survival, the pressures they face, the role they play in healthy ecosystems and the important work happening to protect them, isn't always well known. This role is about changing that.
Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the RSRN is the first project to bring together organisations from both sides of the border to coordinate red squirrel conservation at a landscape scale. As part of this, we’re looking for someone who can help more people feel connected to nature through the story of the red squirrel, especially in communities that are often underrepresented in conservation.
Our first citizen science session for the Climate Engagement Project begins this Sunday! Come along to a relaxed surveying session, where we will introduce how to record species for local biological records, and practice using insect sweep nets and pond dipping🦋
We will meet at the Argus Centre (not A7 lay-by) at 10am (w3w///probing.scrubber.eyepieces). Booking link is in the comments, any questions email Megan@brightgreennature.org.
