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
Folks in the Borders are beginning to realise that the Bright Green Nature team will do pretty much anything when it comes to helping other people who want to help nature.
So when the Jedburgh Grammar Campus teaching staff needed a large bird box (for Tawny Owls) erected they thought.....
Who you gonna call?
Well, obviously - Bright Green Nature!
This bird box had to be fitted at a height of 3m minimum, facing east (sheltered from prevailing winds) and with an unobstructed flight path. Job done, and let's hope some lovely tawney's take advantage of this new home.
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On Friday we joined the TD1 Youth Club in Galashiels (along with a few regulars from the Little Art Hub Galashiels) for an outdoor art session.
Following a short conversation about the importance of nature restoration, we headed into the woods where we used the shapes and colours of nature to inspire lots of great art.
The session was really well attended (14 young people in total) and they all seemed to enjoy getting out and doing something a bit different.
Hopefully we'll get other opportunities to connect with this amazing group in the future.
Last call for applications for this round of funding for Bright Green Nature's Wild Your Space microgrant. Hop over to our website for more information, lots of guidance and our easy application form: https://brightgreennature.org/community.../microgrant/
