Salome Idoidze is one of the two only female park rangers in Georgia. She works in the Tusheti National Park in Georgia, a large protected area on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, bordered by the Russian republics of… Read More
XXII Portuguese National Meeting of Park Rangers
Terceira – Açores From 30th of January to the 2nd of February of 2019 The Portuguese National Meeting of Park Rangers welcomed several ERF members (Albania, Croatia, Scotland, Spain, England, Iceland, Israel, Italy and Switzerland), who kindly participated in this… Read More
9th World Ranger Congress
The 9th World Ranger Congress will be held in the village of Sauraha (on the border of Chitwan National Park), Nepal between 12th-16th November. The IRF World Ranger Congress provides a unique opportunity for rangers and organizations supporting rangers from… Read More
Recent deaths of European Rangers
We have sadly lost a number of colleagues over the past months……. In September Georgia Agency for Protected Areas lost a well respected ranger when Ivane Kupradze of Borjomi-Kharagauli NP was killed by a falling limb during a forest fire.… Read More
Registration now open for World Ranger Congress 2019
From 12.-16. September 2019 there will be hold the 9th WRC in Chitwan NP Nepal Registration is now open: rangercongress.org The International Ranger Federation (IRF) World Ranger Congress (WRC) provides a unique opportunity for rangers from all over the world… Read More
Rangers without borders in a Swiss landscape park
Rangers Without Borders Binational team of Rangers for Wiese Landscape Park (Landschaftspark Wiese) Landschaftspark Wiese is a popular recreational area for the tri-national agglomeration of Basel. To protect it from the growing ” people pressure”, and so that conflicts of… Read More
Welcome to the Georgian Ranger Association
We welcome the Georgian Ranger Association into the European Ranger Federation. Their application for provisional membership of the IRF was approved last week and they are now starting to build up their membership base within the Georgian Agency for Protected… Read More
New attempt of homicide of a Spanish ranger
On October 7th, a ranger from Castilla y León, who had stopped a cattle-man driving on a restricted access road within the Regional Park of Picos de Europa (province of León)
Commemoration of All Saints in Slovakia
On All Saints Day (1st November 2018) – a group of Slovak rangers gathered to light a candle for their fallen colleagues at this memorial dedicated to European Rangers in the Považský Inovec mountains.
Europarc Federation Conference in Scotland
Over 600 participants from 42 countries took part at the annual EUROPARC Conference in Cairngorms National Park Scotland this September. The Conference was hosted under the title „European Parks: Inspired by the next generation“ and it was focused on youth involvement in Protected areas.