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
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“Involving locals in the Ranger team is key to successful rewilding”
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
ERF April newsletter
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
Scientists on urgent action for biodiversity and the role of rangers
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 what zoologist Cornelia Krug and ecosystem resilience researcher Mats Nieberg say. Both contributed to the recently… Read More
Networking opportunity: Rangers from Greifensee present profile
Balancing the needs of people and nature. What is certainly one of the most important tasks of rangering is also the theme of the rangers of the Greifensee Foundation in Switzerland. Here they introduce themselves to the international ranger community… Read More
Two rangers, two projects: combating environmental crime and preserving wetlands
Our new “Two Rangers, Two Projects” is about the work of rangers against environmental crime through research and in favour of natural habitat conservation by water buffalo. While Fermin is writing a master’s thesis on green criminology in addition to… Read More
ERF March newsletter
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
Learning at eye level: Romanian rangers share rewilding and conflict resolution experience
Behind the rangers from a dozen European countries lie three days full of insights into how the rangers from the Romanian Ranger Association and Romanian NGOs deal with the European bison rewilding project and conflicts between humans and wild animals.… Read More
Two federations, one common goal: rangers linking conservation and locals
The EUROPARC Federation and the European Ranger Federation (ERF) are two European conservation organisations with many overlaps – the first is an established network for protected areas in Europe and experienced in facilitating European conservation policy for them, the latter… Read More
Monitoring by rangers allows reconstruction of a wolf’s record migration
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 discovery by a team of rangers in Catalonia into the story of the most widely… Read More