This year’s World Ranger Day (WRD) is dedicated to 148 rangers who died in the line of duty last year and all rangers who shared that fate up to date. Moreover, the International Ranger Federation is also focusing on the… Read More
International collaboration of Rangers defeats illegal wildlife trade
Are you ready for a true story of wildlife crime, rangers and conservationists working together across thousands of kilometres, happy ending included? Then don’t miss our guest report by Ori Linial. He is Head of the National Wildlife Crime Prevention… Read More
ERF June newsletter
Explore the first entries to our ERF Volunteer Photo Contest, learn more about the Interpret Europe conference and its learnings for nature interpretation, and meet María, Spanish ranger and inventor of a digital tool for rangers. In our latest newsletter,… Read More
ERF May newsletter
Learning from ranger to ranger, like a British ranger couple on a world tour, rangering amidst a huge diversity of natural habitats and human cultures like rangers in Israel or building the ranger profession from scratch like in Luxembourg: read… Read More
European Rangers mourn the death of IRF co-founder Gordon Miller
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of the first President and one of the founders of the International Ranger Federation, to whom rangers worldwide and we as European Ranger Federation owe so much. For… Read More
K9 Training: Learning first-hand how a K9 ranger unit works
Until 6 June, you as a ranger working with dogs still have the opportunity to register for our K9 Training: Dogs for Conservation. Not sure if the course is right for you? Read our interview with Lluís Pallarès. He will… Read More
UK Rangers on world tour looking for placement in Europe
To all national parks and other protected areas in Europe and beyond: We present to you today a valuable opportunity to offer a placement for two rangers on their world tour to learn from the internationally experienced rangers. Kate and… Read More
ERF April newsletter
After training is before training. Just returned from all trainings and meetings of March, April set the course for more events: our online training on Digital Tools for Rangers in June, our K9 training in Catalonia in September and a… Read More
Policy expert: Rangers are frontline workers for sustainability
Delivering global climate and biodiversity commitments requires investing in rangers as frontline workers for sustainability: This is what Marianne Kettunen, trustee of Thin Green Line Foundation UK (TGLF UK) and expert at the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of… Read More
Importance of rangers and radiance of Black Forest cake: ERF President in Podcast
Whether it is about the gap between environmental protection policy and its implementation by rangers on the ground or about the power of symbols like Black Forest gateau: In The Rhino Man Podcast, ERF President Urs Reif talks with host… Read More