Professionals to Protect Nature
In the Netherlands, rangering is a lot about interacting with people: While only 10 percent of the densely populated country of the Netherlands consists of natural areas, says Mark Kras, there’s a growing rush of visitors out of the almost… Read More
Nowhere else in Europe can you learn as much about the coexistence of humans and wildlife as in Romania: No other country, for example, is home to more brown bears. Their tracks were omnipresent for the participants of our ranger… Read More
Letting nature lead its own recovery: this, roughly speaking, is the rewilding approach. For Amy Duthie, however, there is much more to rewilding. One thing is to learn from nature. Another is to engage people living in communities where rewilding… Read More
For a few weeks now, the International Ranger Federation has been supported by a General Manager: Jonathan Churcher. We have invited him to introduce himself and his new role to you, the European rangers. Find out here how he came… Read More
What is it like for women to work in the male-dominated ranger profession? Silva Lanfranchi wanted to know. In her research for studies, platforms and more on the topic, the ranger found: little to nothing. That’s why she created a… Read More
As one of the trainers for our rewilding and conflict management training in Romania last March, Catalin Josan passed on his expertise to rangers from all over Europe. Here, for those who couldn’t attend, he talks about his work as… Read More
We have accumulated enough knowledge about the protection of biodiversity. Now it has to be implemented urgently – also with the help of rangers. That’s what zoologist Cornelia Krug and ecosystem resilience researcher Mats Nieberg say. Both contributed to the recently… Read More
Our new “Two Rangers, Two Projects” is about the work of rangers against environmental crime through research and in favour of natural habitat conservation by water buffalo. While Fermin is writing a master’s thesis on green criminology in addition to… Read More
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
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