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
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.
See below for the upcoming Climate Engagement events, partnering with SBCAN and Selkirk Hill Group! These sessions will explore how nature restoration can help mitigate local climate change issues, and how the public can contribute practically to species recording schemes 🌱
We have got a packed programme of events coming up over the next few months as part of the Nature Networks: Climate Change programme. These events are all free to attend and will take place at either Selkirk Hill or Deer Park. You'll be able to join experts in their field to learn about the local impacts of climate change, whether that be learning about the management of wildfires from The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, or joining an ecologist from Bright Green Nature to find out about how climate change is effecting our migrant bird species.
There will be opportunities too for those who want to get stuck in and get hands-on. For instance, join us on 16 September to learn about wetlands and help to construct 'leaky dams'. We are also excited to learn more about the fascinating histories of Selkirk Hill and Deer Park and the changes that have taken place on these sites, past, present and future; we'll be releasing details of these history-talks at a future date!
The first event is one for the citizen scientists among you: this Sunday, join an ecologist at Selkirk Hill to learn the essentials of biological recording and put the skills to the test in the ponds of Selkirk Hill.
Sign-up is via the Eventbrite link in the comments below:
Bright Green Nature's Wild Your Space! microfund offers grants of up to £350 to help individuals and schools encourage wildlife into their green spaces. The current call for applications is open until 31st July. Hop over to our website for more information, lots of guidance and our easy application form: https://brightgreennature.org/community.../microgrant/
