Professionals to Protect Nature
November was all about building bridges: Be it our theme for the European Ranger Congress in October 2025, ‘Rangers – the voice of nature: Building a bridge between local communities and nature conservation’. Or the highly inspiring example of Barbara… Read More
October: What a busy month for the international ranger community! We started with our training of around 20 participants from a dozen countries in the use of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) in North Macedonia and continued straight… Read More
This month we look back on the premiere of the Holiday Programme for Orphaned Ranger Children, initiated by the Spanish ranger aid organisation AMINTA and the British ranger association CMA. See what both, the host families of UK rangers and… Read More
Why August has been quite a Carpathian month for us with Ranger training on coexistence and other initiatives such as preparing for next year’s European Ranger Congress on the ground in the Brasov region, Romania. How coexistence and the Carpathians… Read More
In the July newsletter we look back on a World Ranger Day (WRD) month in which you rangers showed us for our WRD countdown how much the international ranger network stands together. The many deaths of rangers from all over… Read More
For this year’s World Ranger Day, we would like to show how Rangers stand with Rangers! While we will once again be remembering all Rangers who have lost their lives in the line of duty and call to stand by… Read More
Women in the ranger profession are still rare. This makes the question of how they, as well as their male colleagues, are actually doing with this topic all the more exciting. A Swiss female ranger wants to find out and… Read More
The important role of rangers for biodiversity is increasingly being recognised: Also by some of the more than 60 international scientists who have compiled their research findings for the ‘10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science’. We spoke to two of… Read More
In March, we travelled to Romania with over a dozen participants: Our training on Rewilding & Human-Wildlife Conflicts in cooperation with the Romanian Ranger Association taught rangers from 12 European countries how the reintroduction of bison in the south-eastern Carpathians… Read More
February also had its ranger stories: We look at Portugal, where rangers rescued a flamingo that was in danger of starving to death because it had swallowed a fishing line. Lifesavers, habitat and species conservationists, environmental educators and more: It’s… Read More