How do European rangers work, what are their current concerns and what news and solutions to ranger challenges do they report? In our interviews with representatives of national ranger associations and individual rangers, we clarify these questions.
In our ranger portraits we want to know from the rangers personally what drives and keeps them going, whereas our double portrait “Two Rangers, Two Projects" shows ranger projects that are close to the hearts of the portrayed and important for society at the same time.
To give people a deeper, personal meaning of nature and its phenomena: What was once the hobby of archaeologist Kjell Andre Brevik is now his ...
Just watch: Wildlife biologists Barbara and Christoph Promberger couldn’t do that. Originally following the wolves roaming the Romanian Carpathians, the massive deforestation in the 2000s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Environmental education – clearly, these are visitor tours, lectures and the like, which are part of many rangers’ tasks. Not so clear to many European ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The EUROPARC Federation and the European Ranger Federation (ERF) are two European conservation organisations with many overlaps – the first is an established network for ...
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 ...
If you ask Armando Di Marino about his working life, he says that he never worked – that’s how little his four decades as a ...
Shifting Baseline Syndrome – sounds complicated, but it’s not really: People today are losing knowledge of previous generations about nature and take what they know ...
Where there are officially no rangers, their services are all the more needed. Whether combating environmental crime, cooperating with locals in protected areas or providing ...
The recent Europarc Conference in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, attracted a record-breaking 500 participants in the 50th anniversary year of the Europarc Federation. Among them was ...
How important cooperation is among rangers: Gjuro Jovcheski and Aleksandar Gugoski can tell you a thing or two about that. While the Rangers in the ...
