Professionals to Protect 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
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
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
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
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
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
To give people a deeper, personal meaning of nature and its phenomena: What was once the hobby of archaeologist Kjell Andre Brevik is now his profession. As nature and cultural heritage interpreter in the Trøndelag region of central Norway, he… Read More
A jungle in Europe? Sure – at least in the digital world of apps for ranger work that the Swiss Rangers see. They have therefore invited to their annual exchange of experiences organised by Pro Natura, a Swiss environmental organisation,… Read More
Just watch: Wildlife biologists Barbara and Christoph Promberger couldn’t do that. Originally following the wolves roaming the Romanian Carpathians, the massive deforestation in the 2000s shocked the couple so much that they began to mobilise funds around the world. To… Read More
Junior Rangers in the German federal state of Brandenburg learn about diversity on several levels: as species and habitat diversity, but also as diversity among themselves and how it contributes to joint solutions and functioning democracy. Moritz Detel was a… Read More