Professionals to Protect Nature
The launch of our European Ranger Congress (ERC) website, created by our congress partner Foundation Conservation Carpathia, was our April highlight. Here you can register and find out all about the ERC, which is already underway. And we show how… Read More
How to harmonise human interests and the protection of our remaining natural heritage? That was our concern in March. Not only in view of the theme for our next European Ranger Congress: Building Bridges between Local Communities and Nature Conservation.… Read More
We were preoccupied by worrying developments in February, including two wars in our members’ regions. We take a look at the rangers in Ukraine and how they and nature have been coping with three years of war. And our thoughts… Read More
First month of the fresh year: a month of ranger meetings and preparations! While in Portugal more than 100 rangers came together across national and even continental borders, the ranger meeting in Germany is in the peak planning phase. And,… Read More
With wishes for a more peaceful 2025 and a video from ERF President Urs Reif, we take a look back at how 2024 has shaped our work for rangers in Europe and beyond. And we look to Norway, where interpreting… Read More
November was all about building bridges: Be it our theme for the European Ranger Congress in October 2025, ‘Rangers – the voice of nature: Building a bridge between local communities and nature conservation’. Or the highly inspiring example of Barbara… Read More
October: What a busy month for the international ranger community! We started with our training of around 20 participants from a dozen countries in the use of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) in North Macedonia and continued straight… Read More
This month we look back on the premiere of the Holiday Programme for Orphaned Ranger Children, initiated by the Spanish ranger aid organisation AMINTA and the British ranger association CMA. See what both, the host families of UK rangers and… Read More
Why August has been quite a Carpathian month for us with Ranger training on coexistence and other initiatives such as preparing for next year’s European Ranger Congress on the ground in the Brasov region, Romania. How coexistence and the Carpathians… Read More
In the July newsletter we look back on a World Ranger Day (WRD) month in which you rangers showed us for our WRD countdown how much the international ranger network stands together. The many deaths of rangers from all over… Read More