Professionals to Protect Nature
Luke Taylor’s story exemplifies the development of rangers in Scotland in recent years: After starting as a ranger in 2016, he has had various seasonal contracts. As of this year, the volunteer International Representative for the Scottish Countryside Ranger Association… Read More
In preparation to our November ranger seminar on Biodiversity, Large Carnivores and Local Communities, we spent a week on site with the Society for the Protection of Wolves. Our host: the Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC), a foundation that aims to… Read More
Rangers from Europe and from the German Twinning partner Israel recently met in the Bavarian Forest National Park for a train-the-trainer week. Our ERF Board member and Portuguese ranger João Correia was involved and captured the week’s learnings in an… Read More
Read now about the latest news, interviews, reports and trainings from European rangers and the European Ranger Federation in our August newsletter. Not on the recipient list yet? You can subscribe here to receive monthly news from the European Ranger… Read More
How it all began: On May 21, 1995, the then chairman of the International Ranger Federation, Gordon Miller, ceremoniously opened the first World Ranger Congress in Zakopane, Poland. As one of the first opportunities to meet rangers from around the… Read More
There may exist two years between the rangers from Israel and Germany during which joint excursions and face-to-face exchanges of the twinning partners were not possible – but contact has not broken off as the twinning-initiators Ilan Yeger from the… Read More
Can you imagine your national ranger association hosting the next World Ranger Congress? Then check out the International Ranger Federation’s call, which we are happy to share here including the linked application documents in English, French and Spanish: ENGLISH CALL… Read More
Registration for the European Ranger Congress in Tirana, Albania, is open now – register today and forward the link to your ranger colleagues! To have all details at a glance and forward it to other rangers, please find our flyer… Read More
In the latest episode of our series on national ranger associations, we visit Albania and its rangers – hosts of our European Ranger Congress (ERC) in October. Rangers in Albania might not have a long history. But their commitment and… Read More
This year’s World Ranger Day was a double occasion to celebrate for us as European Ranger Federation (ERF) and the rangers of the Israel Nature & Parks Authority (INPA), twinning partners of the German rangers. On this day, when rangers… Read More