We have called on Europe’s rangers to show their diverse work and the challenges they face in a ranger video. To keep their important role in the public eye and give conservation decision makers the best opportunity to support rangers, they need to be visible! Harriet Saltis, UK ranger, kicks things off with her valuable work for the Peak District woodlands.
We, the Thin Green Line Foundation UK, the Countryside Management Association and the ERF, have called on Europe’s rangers to show the diversity of their work and the challenges they face with a ranger video. And our call was answered: Harriet Saltis, ranger in Peak District, England, is the first. See here how diverse the natural features she protects on behalf of Buxton Civic Association are. And learn about her challenges between human expectations and the protection of natural processes.
Giving rangers a voice in an area of tension between nature use and conservation
Harriet’s example shows, that between global shifts with influence on nature, the needs of local people and the protection of nature, rangers not only work for highly diverse goals. Among them are environmental education, species and habitat conservation, monitoring of conservation rules, involvement of local communities, in disaster relief and against poaching. They also often operate in an area of tension between the utilisation of nature and its protection, which is so vital to our survival.