Behind the rangers from a dozen European countries lie three days full of insights into how the rangers from the Romanian Ranger Association and Romanian NGOs deal with the European bison rewilding project and conflicts between humans and wild animals.… Read More
Two federations, one common goal: rangers linking conservation and locals
The EUROPARC Federation and the European Ranger Federation (ERF) are two European conservation organisations with many overlaps – the first is an established network for protected areas in Europe and experienced in facilitating European conservation policy for them, the latter… Read More
Monitoring by rangers allows reconstruction of a wolf’s record migration
It took quite a bit of detective work, close collaboration between experts of three countries, experience and a good deal of luck to turn the discovery by a team of rangers in Catalonia into the story of the most widely… Read More
Two rangers, two projects: inclusive conservation and cadaver research
One helps people with refugee background to find access to nature. The other coordinates a cadaver research project in a national park. Two projects, one profession: Hayden Bridgeman and David Moore are rangers. In their projects, both make an important… Read More
ERF February newsletter
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