For today’s International Women’s Day, we take a look at those in nature conservation who still have to work a little harder in many places. Two female rangers tell us what it means to them to work as women in… Read More
ERF February newsletter
We were preoccupied by worrying developments in February, including two wars in our members’ regions. We take a look at the rangers in Ukraine and how they and nature have been coping with three years of war. And our thoughts… Read More
Ranger Ohad Yahalomi murdered in captivity
We are deeply dismayed by the death of one of the rangers of the European Ranger Federation. Ohad Yahalomi, ranger of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October 2023, was murdered after being kidnapped… Read More
In and in spite of war: How Ukrainian rangers work for nature
For three cruel years now, the rangers and protected area staff in the protected areas of Ukraine have been working under wartime conditions. How does conservation work under these conditions, how do rangers and how does nature cope with this… Read More
ERF Ranger Leaves program: Sponsors help Rangers to help Rangers
Rangers helping Rangers sometimes seek help themselves. This is the case with our ‘Ranger Leaves’ sponsorship programme: a ranger contacts a donor, private individual or company, who purchases a leaf to support a ranger or an action that benefits rangers… Read More
Tellus Conservation brings funding for Ukraine’s rangers to the ground
With a flagship project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the nature-based project developer Tellus Conservation is helping to restore a 2,900 square meter protected area in the west, the UK-based company has also established a comprehensive support project… Read More
ERF January newsletter
First month of the fresh year: a month of ranger meetings and preparations! While in Portugal more than 100 rangers came together across national and even continental borders, the ranger meeting in Germany is in the peak planning phase. And,… Read More
Rangers generate win-win for visitors and nature by encouraging good conduct
Ranger Frédéric Debétaz works in the brand new Trient Valley Regional Nature Park in the Swiss canton of Valais. Although the local population has been involved from the outset and democratically agreed to the park continuing beyond the candidate phase,… Read More
Creating emotions and awareness – how a ranger protects the Wadden Sea
Protecting biodiversity: In the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage Site with around 10,000 animal and plant species, this is a task also of central importance for human future well-being. Leonie Dittmann works in the German Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park… Read More
Two Rangers, Two Projects: Coexistence with wolves and wild boar
One looks after both: the wolf, still strictly protected in Europe, and the farmers in the national park, whose traditional alpine farming is directly affected by the wolves’ presence – ranger Romain Lacoste from the French Mercantour National Park works… Read More