Professionals to Protect Nature
The Portuguese Rangers met from 30 January to 2 February for their annual meeting. They celebrated the 30th anniversary of their association and also invited some international guests. The meeting in Sagres in the Algarve was not only attended by… Read More
At the forthcoming European Ranger Congress (11th – 16th May 2020, Bavarian Forest National Park), we will be holding elections for the new Executive Committee of the ERF.The ERF President Urs Wegmann has already been confirmed in post.At the bottom… Read More
Our German Ranger colleague Mario Marschler after the last ERC in Litomerice started saving money to fund a Ranger to attend the World Ranger Congress in Nepal. See here the result and the report from Mario: After attending a European… Read More
The Portuguese Ranger Association and the regional government of the Azores islands have recently established a new Junior Ranger program. Congratulations to all, who helped to make this possible. This is a great example of the collaboration between the Portuguese… Read More
Intercultural exchange project receives award from the International Ranger Federation The exchange programme between German and Israeli rangers has been running since 2017 and is increasingly developing into a successful project that brings people together. The 9th World Ranger Congress… Read More
In the first week of December 2019 we conducted an operation to locate loop snares in southern Israel in the region called the Arava. Foreign agricultural workers from the Far East, mainly from Thailand, live in this area. Unfortunately, some… Read More
The European region of the IRF was well represented at the WRC Nepal with almost all our ERF member associations sending delegates. Many were regular attenders at this event whilst some were there for the first time. One such “newbie”… Read More
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia along with Agency of Protected Areas, Administration State Representative and volunteers have been tasked with cleaning up the highest mountain trail of Georgia, littered with garbage from decades. The trail and especially… Read More
The CMA (UK) annual conference was hosted by the National Trust and the Lake District National Park. It was based at Ambleside on Lake Windermere from the 9-11 October on a theme of landscape scale approaches to countryside management. Building… Read More
A joint meeting of the Slovak Ranger Association and Czech Ranger Association took place on 8 – 10 November at Kohútka on the Czech-Slovak border, continuing the tradition of Czecho-Slovak cooperation. The programme included presentations by the participating rangers and… Read More