Professionals to Protect Nature
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
Are you ready for a true story of wildlife crime, rangers and conservationists working together across thousands of kilometres, happy ending included? Then don’t miss our guest report by Ori Linial. He is Head of the National Wildlife Crime Prevention… Read More
Interpretation of natural heritage is the basis for people’s emotional involvement in its conservation. It reveals the value of natural sites for our lives. Against this background the conference of Interpret Europe recently took place – a charity that aims… Read More
“Everything is a story” is the motto of Bo Storm, Danish ranger and certified Nature Interpreter. In our Nature Interpretation Training, he and his colleagues taught 15 rangers from 9 countries how important a good story is for their work.… Read More
How do rangers in Romania manage large predators? How do they involve the local population and prevent conflicts? These were the questions of our recent on-site training in the Romanian Carpathians in cooperation with the Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC). Participant… Read More
When rangers around the world stand together, this not only helps them but also precious nature and humankind depending on it. The partnership between rangers from El Salvador and the Bavarian Forest National Park is a truly encouraging example. Its… Read More
On the road with rangers from Europe and all over the world in the mountains of the Shebenik-Jablanica National Park in Albania. Time to talk: about what it means to be outdoors every day and sometimes at night, working to… Read More
In preparation to our November ranger seminar on Biodiversity, Large Carnivores and Local Communities, we spent a week on site with the Society for the Protection of Wolves. Our host: the Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC), a foundation that aims to… Read More
Rangers from Europe and from the German Twinning partner Israel recently met in the Bavarian Forest National Park for a train-the-trainer week. Our ERF Board member and Portuguese ranger João Correia was involved and captured the week’s learnings in an… Read More
There may exist two years between the rangers from Israel and Germany during which joint excursions and face-to-face exchanges of the twinning partners were not possible – but contact has not broken off as the twinning-initiators Ilan Yeger from the… Read More