Professionals to Protect Nature
Last week 20 rangers of 13 European countries met in Dartmoor National Park, UK, for our Image & Fundraising Workshop. The aim: raising awareness about the importance of rangers through image work and finding fundraising strategies. As a starting point,… Read More
Beach clean-ups, saving animal lives, working with others, volunteer rangering to protect nature and peoples’ access to it: the entries to our 1st European Ranger Volunteer Photo Contest show how diverse the contribution of volunteers in nature conservation is. We… Read More
It was with great sadness that we learned of the attacks in Israel. With this letter we would like to stand by our Ranger friends in Israel and assure them of our solidarity. Our thoughts and wishes for a quick… Read More
The world massively underestimates the threat to biodiversity posed by invasive species. And: Europe is one of the hotspots for this threat. These are some of the key findings of the latest report on invasive species by the World Biodiversity… Read More
Dramatically underestimated, one of the biggest threats to biodiversity and another challenge that increasingly requires more ranger capacity: Invasive alien species are a capital threat to the world, according to the latest IPBES report, with hotspots mainly in Europe and… Read More
As many national parks as there are in relatively small Austria: There are only a few full-time rangers, as Manuela Jenicek, ranger in the Thayatal National Park for the Austrian Ranger Association, says. As part of our interview series with… Read More
Twinning as a particularly effective and resilience-building form of exchange between rangers of two countries was the focus for us in August. With short profiles, we want to inspire new partnerships and motivate existing ones to deepen. Also: An interview… Read More
The next World Ranger Congress (WRC) of the International Ranger Federation is coming up, right in our region: We are very happy for Gardes Nature de France that they have won the bid to host the 10th WRC in Hyères… Read More
Exchange of knowledge from ranger to ranger on site: Twinning partnerships between rangers from two different countries thrive on this. Such an exchange has just taken place again in the protected areas of Brandenburg and in the Black Forest National… Read More
In many places, rangers in Spain are currently mainly concerned with the consequences of droughts and the prevention, investigation and extinguishing of forest fires. We wanted to know how they are handling this, what other ranger issues they are dealing… Read More