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Year: 2023

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CMA Annual Conference on Delivering Nature Recovery

23 October 202311 January 2024 Editorial

Just days after our Workshop in Dartmoor, UK, the Rangers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland plus guests met some 240 miles to the northwest for the annual meeting of the Countryside Management Association (CMA) in Dovedale. Read CMA member… Read More

News, Reportinternational cooperation

President’s letter and news on the situation of rangers in Israel

20 October 202320 October 2023 Editorial

It has now been almost two weeks since Rangers in Israel and all civilians in the region have to live with even more terrible news every day and traumatic situations in close vicinity. We would like to put a spotlight… Read More

News, Twinning

K9 training shows practical use of dogs in ranger work

17 October 202317 October 2023 Editorial

We have just carried out our first international K9 Training in cooperation with the Special Canine Group (GEK9) of the Rural Agents Corps from Catalonia. Under the title “K9: Dogs for Conservation” it attracted about a dozen international rangers from… Read More

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ERF September newsletter

12 October 20237 November 2023 Editorial

Show the great biodiversity right on the doorstep: This is one of the concerns of the rangers in Austria, whom we portray in our interview. This biodiversity is in danger worldwide, with invasive species as one of the greatest threats.… Read More

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Junior Rangers in NP Bavarian Forest: tips and experiences from 25 years

11 October 202311 October 2023 Wiebke Bomas

It has received several awards and is now a proud 25 years old: the Junior Ranger Programme of the Bavarian Forest National Park. With years of experience in this hands-on form of environmental education with children, the rangers behind this… Read More

Interview, Junior Rangerenvironmental education

ERF Image & Fundraising workshop: Making society understand its need for rangers

11 October 202330 October 2023 Wiebke Bomas

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

Training, Working groupsFundraising, Image

Explore the entries to our ERF Volunteer Photo Contest

10 October 202316 January 2024 Editorial

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

News, VolunteersVolunteers

We stand with the Rangers in Israel

8 October 20238 October 2023 Editorial

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

News, Twinning

“Rangers are key against threats from invasive species”

13 September 202313 September 2023 Wiebke Bomas

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

InterviewConservation Policy

Invasive species: huge threat to biodiversity, fought by rangers

6 September 20236 September 2023 Wiebke Bomas

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

News, ReportConservation Policy

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