February also had its ranger stories: We look at Portugal, where rangers rescued a flamingo that was in danger of starving to death because it had swallowed a fishing line. Lifesavers, habitat and species conservationists, environmental educators and more: It’s… Read More
Best technique for environmental education: sparking emotions with storytelling
If you ask Armando Di Marino about his working life, he says that he never worked – that’s how little his four decades as a ranger were a job and how much of a passion they were for him! Yet… Read More
ERF January newsletter
We have started the new year with the will and hope to make the rangers’ voices heard more strongly in global nature conservation policy. In this newsletter, you can read how each individual ranger can contribute to this and that… Read More
“What I refer to as pristine nature, older people might consider damaged”
Shifting Baseline Syndrome – sounds complicated, but it’s not really: People today are losing knowledge of previous generations about nature and take what they know from today’s evidence as the basis for determining which species or habitats to protect. As… Read More
Join our ranger training on Rewilding & Human-Wildlife Conflicts!
The conservation policy goal of expanding protected areas and rewilding projects have consequences for local residents. As rangers work on exactly this potential conflict line, we are offering our Ranger Training on Rewilding and Human-Wildlife Conflicts at the end of… Read More
How volunteers in Moldova shape the ranger profession for lack of state priority
Where there are officially no rangers, their services are all the more needed. Whether combating environmental crime, cooperating with locals in protected areas or providing information to visitors: The small number of state environmental inspectors in Moldova is not able… Read More
“What we rangers have to say is of great interest to park managers”
The recent Europarc Conference in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, attracted a record-breaking 500 participants in the 50th anniversary year of the Europarc Federation. Among them was Urs Wegmann, Swiss ranger and our former president. He tells us what he took away… Read More
ERF December newsletter
As the year draws to a close, we are left with the hope that more peaceful times will return – especially for our fellow Rangers in the war-torn regions with whom we are in contact. In our newsletter, we take… Read More