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
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.
Earlier this week, our brilliant Junior Rangers got stuck into another nature-filled session at Deer Park. It was fantastic to see so much curiosity, teamwork and enthusiasm for the wildlife on their doorstep. 🐞🌳
This session, the group were mapping our wetland areas on Deer Park - finding the streams and ponds, and coming up with a nature-friendly management strategy to keep it thriving.
Ideas included leaky dams, insect refugia and many more! Everyone played a part in learning more about the site and helping care for it. We were especially pleased to spot an elephant hawkmoth caterpillar in amongst the rosebay willowherb!
A huge well done to all our Junior Rangers for their energy and ideas, and thank you to our funders @SSE plc for helping make the session possible.
🌿 Nature came to the Borders General Hospital this week! 🌿
On Monday, we set up our community outreach stand at Borders General Hospital and had some brilliant chats with patients, visitors and staff about the wildlife and wild spaces on their doorstep.
From sharing ways to get involved in local nature restoration to swapping favourite wildlife sightings, it was lovely to meet so many people who care about the Scottish Borders’ landscapes, habitats and species. 🦋🐦🌳
A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat, picked up information, shared an idea or simply told us about a place in nature that matters to them. Every conversation helps strengthen the connections between people and the natural world around us.
Keep an eye on our page for upcoming events, volunteering opportunities and ways to get involved in nature recovery near you.
