Professionals to Protect Nature
Junior Rangers in the German federal state of Brandenburg learn about diversity on several levels: as species and habitat diversity, but also as diversity among themselves and how it contributes to joint solutions and functioning democracy. Moritz Detel was a… Read More
It is one of the world’s first comprehensive surveys of the state of biodiversity on a national basis, carried out by around 150 scientists and recently presented for Germany: the Biodiversity Fact Check by the Research Initiative for the Conservation… Read More
When locals themselves take an active role in nature conservation, they become the greatest advocates for the protection of ‘their’ species and habitats. Around a river protected area in western Serbia, this has worked out perfectly: The nature conservation NGO… Read More
Two years ago in December, we informed about the tragic death of Spanish ranger Juan Pedro de la Cruz Sagredo. Today we report on his two daughters, who were part of the premiere of a holiday visit for orphaned ranger… Read More
Following the premiere of the holiday programme for orphaned ranger children between the Spanish ranger aid organisation AMINTA and the British ranger association CMA, we asked AMINTA President Antonio Gutiérrez Sánchez about the background and further planning of the programme.… Read More
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
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
Environmental education – clearly, these are visitor tours, lectures and the like, which are part of many rangers’ tasks. Not so clear to many European rangers is what the concept of nature and heritage interpretation is all about. We spoke… 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