Summary Report for the EEC about the Workshop of Twinning Partners held in Frederikshavn, Denmark 28.2. – 3.3 2019 Short summary Seventeen members of national ranger associations attended the 3-day meeting (Por 1, Den 5, Sui 1, Slo 1, Cze… Read More
Salome Idoidze – one of the two only female park rangers in Georgia
Salome Idoidze is one of the two only female park rangers in Georgia. She works in the Tusheti National Park in Georgia, a large protected area on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, bordered by the Russian republics of… Read More
XXII Portuguese National Meeting of Park Rangers
Terceira – Açores From 30th of January to the 2nd of February of 2019 The Portuguese National Meeting of Park Rangers welcomed several ERF members (Albania, Croatia, Scotland, Spain, England, Iceland, Israel, Italy and Switzerland), who kindly participated in this… Read More
9th World Ranger Congress
The 9th World Ranger Congress will be held in the village of Sauraha (on the border of Chitwan National Park), Nepal between 12th-16th November. The IRF World Ranger Congress provides a unique opportunity for rangers and organizations supporting rangers from… Read More
Recent deaths of European Rangers
We have sadly lost a number of colleagues over the past months……. In September Georgia Agency for Protected Areas lost a well respected ranger when Ivane Kupradze of Borjomi-Kharagauli NP was killed by a falling limb during a forest fire.… Read More
Twinning meeting in Israel
For a few days now Israelian Rangers have been hosting their twins from Germany, an extraordinary experience, a lot of conversations about preserving nature and especially the continuation and strengthening of the relationship. A good example for the exchange between… Read More
Registration now open for World Ranger Congress 2019
From 12.-16. September 2019 there will be hold the 9th WRC in Chitwan NP Nepal Registration is now open: rangercongress.org The International Ranger Federation (IRF) World Ranger Congress (WRC) provides a unique opportunity for rangers from all over the world… Read More
Rangers without borders in a Swiss landscape park
Rangers Without Borders Binational team of Rangers for Wiese Landscape Park (Landschaftspark Wiese) Landschaftspark Wiese is a popular recreational area for the tri-national agglomeration of Basel. To protect it from the growing ” people pressure”, and so that conflicts of… Read More
Welcome to the Georgian Ranger Association
We welcome the Georgian Ranger Association into the European Ranger Federation. Their application for provisional membership of the IRF was approved last week and they are now starting to build up their membership base within the Georgian Agency for Protected… Read More
New attempt of homicide of a Spanish ranger
On October 7th, a ranger from Castilla y León, who had stopped a cattle-man driving on a restricted access road within the Regional Park of Picos de Europa (province of León)