Professionals to Protect Nature
The National Protected Areas Control Agency (NPACA) started as an NGO in Bulgaria three years ago to establish not only the ranger profession, but also a specific ranger framework for the country’s more than 600 protected areas. It is truly… Read More
Using drones out in the field has many benefits for rangers: It’s a versatile, fast response tool that can gather an enormous amount of information with hardly any impact on wildlife. If you want to learn how exactly to use… Read More
One platform for all rangers around the world: That’s the vision of Force For Nature, an organisation committed to the belief that rangers are the best lever we have to restore nature and deliver nature-based solutions. Its main product, the… Read More
Our President Urs Reif sends best New Year’s greetings to all rangers and conservationists in Europe and the world. See here his outlook for 2023 against the backdrop of the COP 15 results and on an exciting ERF training program.… Read More
The fact that rangers are not taken seriously becomes a problem if we want to protect at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030. Sweden is a good example for announcing this 30 by 30 target… Read More
Our ranger training on environmental education is all about storytelling: Denmark’s rangers will show and let participants try out for themselves around Frederikshavn from 27 to 31 March 2023 how storytelling can improve rangers’ skills in interpreting nature for environmental… Read More
Our project officer Maia has established the Georgian Ranger Association with the help of the international ranger network in 2019. Only recently at the ERC in Albania, the association celebrated its twinning agreement with the British Countryside Management Association. Today,… Read More
Rangers, conservationists and dog experts from all over the world joined us for our online training on Dogs for Conservation with Wesley Visscher, owner of Scent Imprint Conservation Dogs. Our huge thanks goes to Wesley for an exciting, insightful and… Read More
To kick off the 15th UN Conference on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15), we provide a short insight into the current state of global biodiversity. The Science-Policy Platform IPBES has created a framework for the 15th Conference of Parties in… Read More
Our next training offers, your chance to give us feedback on the ERC, a review of the extraordinary visit from El Salvador rangers in Europe, our congress film to take you back into the atmosphere and more in our November… Read More