Thinking of Malta, many will remember the case of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who died in 2017 due to a bomb hidden in the car she drove. Not only journalists, also rangers live in danger in Malta, as Camilla… Read More
Thin Green Line Foundation UK: Giving rangers a louder voice
Thin Green Line Foundation UK was established in 2019, following the Thin Green Line Foundation Australia founded in 2007. The organisation supports rangers on the frontline, providing financial support, training and equipment, but also aims to raise awareness for the… Read More
Closing the gap between nature conservation and digitalisation
Wildlife cameras, drones or apps for environmental education: Digital technologies are increasingly part of rangers’ toolkit. We spoke with digital strategist and former ranger Klemens Mrogenda about how digitalisation helps rangers conserve biodiversity. At the German Federal Agency for Nature… Read More
Storytelling not bans: Rangers train to connect people and nature
“Everything is a story” is the motto of Bo Storm, Danish ranger and certified Nature Interpreter. In our Nature Interpretation Training, he and his colleagues taught 15 rangers from 9 countries how important a good story is for their work.… Read More
Good and bad news on Albania’s protected areas
Europe’s first wild river national park was announced last Wednesday in Albania, while urbanisation continues to be planned near the extremely valuable lagoons and bird sanctuaries of Divjaka-Karavasta National Park region. Hopefully environmentalists will one day prevail here too, as they… Read More
Croatian rangers: environmental education is crucial to encounter mass tourism
Croatia is booming as a tourist destination, its extremely diverse nature with numerous waters, islands, beaches, cliffs and mountains groaning under masses of tourists. For the nature reserves and their rangers, the growing tourism infrastructure brings ever-increasing tasks outshining many… Read More
“My drone has more functions due to the course”
The first international ERF drone training for rangers hit the mark, as can be seen from the feedback of the participants. Thanks to the guidance by the drone-experienced rangers from Junta de Andalucía, the on-site support of participant and ranger… Read More
“The ranger profession now is officially recognised in Romania”
Romania had its first national park as early as 1938: Retezat National Park in the southeast. One of the first rangers there and in Romania at all was Florin Halastauan, known to many in the ranger community as “Hombre”. We… Read More
“Amazing how Finnish rangers are working on the same ideas as in other countries”
Being a ranger in Finland: In Nuuksio national park this often means working a lot with volunteers, but also prisoners. It does for Teemu Laine: the spokesperson of the Finnish ranger association Suomen Rangerit and field supervisor in Nuuksio national… Read More
“Twinning is practical and emotional, sometimes life changing learning”
It was a packed five days that rangers from Germany experienced during their visit to their Twinning partners in Israel last week. And it was even the second mutual visit of the Twinning partners after the pandemic, following the meeting… Read More