EUROPEAN RANGER FEDERATION Newsletter 03 - March 2019
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Editorial
Welcome to the third edition of the ERF newsletter. In the following articles, you will find some very successful and inspiring examples of twinning programs, meetings and workshops that have happened around Europe. These are great ways to bring together rangers and to further the aims of the ERF and IRF. Our Training Officers (Hrafnhildur "Habba" Ævarsdottir and her deputy Urs Wegmann) with the Training Working Group are working to establish a standard for ranger training, while some ranger associations are organising the first "ERF endorsed" training sessions. And for more Ranger news, check out the articles on ERF website at the end of the newsletter. Happy reading!
Emmanuel Icardo, ERF Secretary
The President's Column
Frank Grütz
Dear friends, Ranger colleagues and members,
Hope this new edition of our ERF-newsletter finds you well and highly motivated for the upcoming ranger season. Some of you already held their national Annual Ranger Congresses and some will hold it during the next weeks. Beginning of February our Project Officer Niki attended a fantastic and inspiring Portuguese Ranger Congress on which also a lot of guests from other Ranger Associations took part to use the chance to learn, offer examples of best practice and for exchange. And to share and pass on their motivation and passion. Next week our Vice-President Roger Cole will attend the first Annual Ranger Congress of the new-established Ranger Association of Ireland and I will follow the invitation of the Spanish Ranger Association to attend the Spanish Ranger Congress. Of course we will hold some presentations about the work of Rangers, the ERF and how to improve things. But we also want to learn about the successes, needs and duties of our hosts to find ways how ERF can offer support and give new motivation. A couple of days ago I received the request of a big TV channel that plans to produce a documentary about the work of Rangers worldwide with the focus on how Rangers manage to get along with problems like pollution, increasing pressure of tourism and poaching in their protected areas. As you can see – nature protection and the important work of Rangers slowly find its ways to come to attention of the public – and hopefully politics also. Facing all this problems I really am fascinated over and over again and bow deep in respect for your passion and motivation to go on day by day! But next to several events this year comes up with a special event – the World Ranger Congress in Nepal from 11. - 16. November. And this will offer a unique chance to meet Ranger colleagues from all over the world, to learn from each other and to celebrate the worldwide acting Ranger family. For sure you will return with new ideas and inspiration, regained passion and motivation for your jobs back home. Due to a doubled work load in my regular job for the last one year and arising health problems trying to carry out my duties as President of the ERF and European Representative of the IRF next to my daily job unfortunately I won´t candidate for the European Representative of the IRF at WRC in Nepal. Last but not least – SAVE THE DATE for our 5. European Ranger Congress 11.-16. May 2020 in Bavarian Forest NP in Germany. Thank you all for your dedication, passion and motivation for the most important job in the World! Be proud to be a Ranger – I am proud to be a Ranger!
But now – enjoy our ERF newsletter and take care!
Yours
ERF Executive Committee: Personality Profile
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Michael Großmann has just joined the ERF Executive Committee as fundraising/ sponsoring specialist. Welcome Michael! |
Michael (Germany) has been holding various positions in the Bavarian Forest National Park since 1990; he has been head of the ranger team for 6 years now. For him, two major tasks are the preparation of „complex topics“ of nature and species conservation for the best possible information work of rangers, as well as the further development of the Junior Ranger programme. Michael is an active member of the working group „Parkranger Management” of Europarc Germany.
Twinning Workshop in Denmark Report
Summary Report for the EEC about the Workshop of Twinning Partners held in Frederikshavn, Denmark 28.2. – 3.3 2019 Short summary Seventeen members of national ranger associations attended the 3-day meeting (Por 1, Den 5, Sui 1, Slo 1, Cze… Read More
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International Friends and Twinning Programs
The Ranger Association of Iceland has made two twinning agreements with two separate countries; first with Scotland later with Romania, because having one twin is not enough! The twinning made between Iceland and Scotland is an older agreement that started… Read More
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Twinning meeting in Israel
For a few days now Israelian Rangers have been hosting their twins from Germany, an extraordinary experience, a lot of conversations about preserving nature and especially the continuation and strengthening of the relationship. A good example for the exchange between… Read More
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XXII Portuguese National Ranger Meeting
Terceira – Açores From 30th of January to the 2nd of February of 2019 The Portuguese National Meeting of Park Rangers welcomed several ERF members (Albania, Croatia, Scotland, Spain, England, Iceland, Israel, Italy and Switzerland), who kindly participated in this… Read More
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Recent news
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Countryside Management Association (CMA) 2019 conference
Theme - Engaging communities, enhancing lives Over 50 rangers attended the CMA conference in November 2018 which was based in the Lee Valley Regional Park close to London and was opened…
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ERF Anti-poaching “train-the-trainer” course
July 28 - August 3 2019, Carmel National Park, Israel This training course hosted by our ERF colleagues of the Israel Ranger Association is heavily over-subscribed and the course is…
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Malta recruits volunteer Park Rangers
The island of Malta (316 km²) has been recruiting volunteer rangers in the Majjistral Nature and History Park to help patrol the Park and to report any irregularity or illegality they…
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A new app to help Spanish rangers
Juan Manuel Alvarez Quiñones AEAFMA (Spanish rangers association) devolopped and launched an app to supply quick and easy access to most of the regulations and laws involved in nature protection…
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Salome Idoidze – one of the two only female park rangers in Georgia
Salome Idoidze is one of the two only female park rangers in Georgia. She works in the Tusheti National Park in Georgia, a large protected area on the northern slopes of…
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Making the case for Congress attendance
The 9th World Ranger Congress will be held in the village of Sauraha (on the border of Chitwan National Park), Nepal between 12th-16th November. The IRF World Ranger Congress provides…
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Recent deaths of European Rangers
We have sadly lost a number of colleagues over the past months....... In September Georgia Agency for Protected Areas lost a well respected ranger when Ivane Kupradze of Borjomi-Kharagauli NP…
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Rangers without borders in a Swiss landscape park
Rangers Without Borders Binational team of Rangers for Wiese Landscape Park (Landschaftspark Wiese) Landschaftspark Wiese is a popular recreational area for the tri-national agglomeration of Basel. To protect it from…
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Welcome to the Georgian Ranger Association
We welcome the Georgian Ranger Association into the European Ranger Federation. Their application for provisional membership of the IRF was approved last week and they are now starting to build…
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Upcoming events
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