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Award for Spanish ranger honours key role of women in conservation

20 October 202524 October 2025 Editorial

She is ‘Mujer Rural’ 2025: Ingrid Guerrero Klein, president of the Spanish Ranger Association AEAFMA, was awarded this year’s prize for rural women by the Costa del Sol Axarquía Association of Municipalities. The award recognises not only her role model… Read More

Female Rangers, Highlights, News

ERF Activity Reports – Vital Ranger Support from 2017 until now

29 September 202531 October 2025 Lars Scharfe

Since its foundation the ERF has succeded in many ways to bring its mission and vision forward: To support rangers across Europe, strenghten their profession, raise awareness for their work and create a vital network to connect them. For more… Read More

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International Law Enforcement Expert wanted!

17 July 202417 July 2024 Editorial

Although we do not maintain a regular job exchange, we would still like to share some interesting offers with you. This attractive and long-term job opportunity here is for the locally flexible law enforcement experts among you: Co-financed by the… Read More

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CMA Annual Conference on Delivering Nature Recovery

23 October 202311 January 2024 Editorial

Just days after our Workshop in Dartmoor, UK, the Rangers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland plus guests met some 240 miles to the northwest for the annual meeting of the Countryside Management Association (CMA) in Dovedale. Read CMA member… Read More

News, Reportinternational cooperation

President’s letter and news on the situation of rangers in Israel

20 October 202320 October 2023 Editorial

It has now been almost two weeks since Rangers in Israel and all civilians in the region have to live with even more terrible news every day and traumatic situations in close vicinity. We would like to put a spotlight… Read More

News, Twinning

Explore the entries to our ERF Volunteer Photo Contest

10 October 202316 January 2024 Editorial

Beach clean-ups, saving animal lives, working with others, volunteer rangering to protect nature and peoples’ access to it: the entries to our 1st European Ranger Volunteer Photo Contest show how diverse the contribution of volunteers in nature conservation is. We… Read More

News, VolunteersVolunteers

We stand with the Rangers in Israel

8 October 20238 October 2023 Editorial

It was with great sadness that we learned of the attacks in Israel. With this letter we would like to stand by our Ranger friends in Israel and assure them of our solidarity. Our thoughts and wishes for a quick… Read More

News, Twinning

Invasive species: huge threat to biodiversity, fought by rangers

6 September 20236 September 2023 Wiebke Bomas

Dramatically underestimated, one of the biggest threats to biodiversity and another challenge that increasingly requires more ranger capacity: Invasive alien species are a capital threat to the world, according to the latest IPBES report, with hotspots mainly in Europe and… Read More

News, ReportConservation Policy

Israeli rangers on Twinning visit: fruitful discussions on conservation challenges

18 August 202318 August 2023 Editorial

Exchange of knowledge from ranger to ranger on site: Twinning partnerships between rangers from two different countries thrive on this. Such an exchange has just taken place again in the protected areas of Brandenburg and in the Black Forest National… Read More

News, Report, Twinning

Spanish rangers: Caring for a highly diverse nature

9 August 202324 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

In many places, rangers in Spain are currently mainly concerned with the consequences of droughts and the prevention, investigation and extinguishing of forest fires. We wanted to know how they are handling this, what other ranger issues they are dealing… Read More

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