In the Austrian Donau-Auen National Park, there is a great diversity of birds, fish, amphibians, plants and other species. Rangers like Natalia Wrbka are on duty day in, day out to explain the importance of this biodiversity to visitors and neighbours.
Guided tours on land and by boat to the habitats in the unique landscape of the Danube floodplains are one way of bringing people closer to the ecosystems that depend on biodiversity – and to show how much we in turn depend on these ecosystems, e.g. to regulate floods.
Unfortunately, Natalia’s and the challenge of countless fellow rangers to collect visitors’ rubbish shows that the work of rangers as voice of nature and link between humans and our natural treasures needs to be realised on a far greater scale. We lack 1.5 million rangers worldwide to effectively protect nature and achieve our global conservation goals as a study shows!
To pool the existing in-depth knowledge of rangers on bridging nature conservation and people, we are inviting rangers from all over Europe to the 6th European Ranger Congress in Romania this October.
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