Professionals to Protect Nature
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
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
The Earth is facing the sixth mass extinction in history: this is what science journalist Philip Bethge writes in the German news magazine “Der Spiegel”. He accompanied rangers for a series in the run-up to the COP15 biodiversity conference to… Read More
The National Protected Areas Control Agency (NPACA) started as an NGO in Bulgaria three years ago to establish not only the ranger profession, but also a specific ranger framework for the country’s more than 600 protected areas. It is truly… Read More
One platform for all rangers around the world: That’s the vision of Force For Nature, an organisation committed to the belief that rangers are the best lever we have to restore nature and deliver nature-based solutions. Its main product, the… Read More
The fact that rangers are not taken seriously becomes a problem if we want to protect at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030. Sweden is a good example for announcing this 30 by 30 target… Read More
Our ranger training on environmental education is all about storytelling: Denmark’s rangers will show and let participants try out for themselves around Frederikshavn from 27 to 31 March 2023 how storytelling can improve rangers’ skills in interpreting nature for environmental… Read More
Our project officer Maia has established the Georgian Ranger Association with the help of the international ranger network in 2019. Only recently at the ERC in Albania, the association celebrated its twinning agreement with the British Countryside Management Association. Today,… Read More
Actually, the changes after the board elections at the European Ranger Congress boil down to an “l” in the first name: After three years as Vice-President, Ian Brooker is replaced by Ilan Yeger, while Urs Reif, who had been acting… Read More
Surely many of you who were with us at the 5th European Ranger Congress in Albania still share memories of the days spent together in Tirana. Time for a flashback, also for all those who unfortunately could not be there:… Read More