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Month: January 2023

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Global Ranger Congress is not related to World Ranger Congress

30 January 202315 August 2023 Editorial

Today we take up the clarification of the International Ranger Federation that the “Global Ranger Congress” on the Azores announced for later this year is not an official International Ranger Federation World Ranger Congress. Our President Urs Reif writes to… Read More

News, World Ranger Congress

Heroes of diversity: “Rangers are nature’s first line of defence”

27 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

The Earth is facing the sixth mass extinction in history: this is what science journalist Philip Bethge writes in the German news magazine “Der Spiegel”. He accompanied rangers for a series in the run-up to the COP15 biodiversity conference to… Read More

European Rangers, Highlights, Interview, NewsConservation Policy

“Bulgarians love their nature, but need education on its conservation” 

26 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

The National Protected Areas Control Agency (NPACA) started  as an NGO in Bulgaria three years ago to establish not only the ranger profession, but also a specific ranger framework for the country’s more than 600 protected areas. It is truly… Read More

European Rangers, Highlights, Interview, News, Series on National Associations

Drone training: Adding modern technology to the ranger toolkit

20 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

Using drones out in the field has many benefits for rangers: It’s a versatile, fast response tool that can gather an enormous amount of information with hardly any impact on wildlife. If you want to learn how exactly to use… Read More

News, Training, Video1 Comment

Force For Nature: elevating the status of rangers

12 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

One platform for all rangers around the world: That’s the vision of Force For Nature, an organisation committed to the belief that rangers are the best lever we have to restore nature and deliver nature-based solutions. Its main product, the… Read More

Interview, News, VideoConservation Policy, international cooperation

New Year’s greetings from ERF President

7 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

Our President Urs Reif sends best New Year’s greetings to all rangers and conservationists in Europe and the world. See here his outlook for 2023 against the backdrop of the COP 15 results and on an exciting ERF training program.… Read More

News, Video

ERF December newsletter is out

4 January 202315 August 2023 Editorial

Check out the latest news on our training offers such as the Nature Interpretation Training in Denmark (there are still places available – register here) or our training on the use of drones for ranger work in Spain. Also: interviews… Read More

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