Cold season is approaching fast – the best time to go tracking in the snow. That’s exactly what we’re inviting you to do: to Romania, where we’ll be out and about with rangers from Foundation Conservation Carpathia from 6 to… Read More
Tracking bears and wolves: Visiting Carpathians as precursor to ranger training
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
Report on Train-the-Trainer Findings in Bavarian Forest National Park
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
Anti poaching webinars: Spreading knowledge to save rangers’ lives
This year’s World Ranger Day was a double occasion to celebrate for us as European Ranger Federation (ERF) and the rangers of the Israel Nature & Parks Authority (INPA), twinning partners of the German rangers. On this day, when rangers… Read More
Participants from 16 countries joined anti-poaching webinar – watch it now
Our kick-off of the anti-poaching webinar series was a double success: more than 50 participants of 16 countries from Nepal to the USA, from Sweden to Africa attended our first webinar with Israeli INPA ranger Ariel Kedem. This not only… Read More
Anti poaching webinars start on World Ranger Day
Soon it will be off: On World Ranger Day our anti poaching webinars will start. This will not only be a day to remember the rangers and their families who died during their work, but also a day to gather… Read More
“We need to get back into international exchange on pressing issues”
🇬🇧🇩🇪 The issues for rangers in Europe are pressing, while exchange and learning from each other has been difficult recently due to the pandemic. This is where the European Ranger Federation comes in with its international train-the-trainer camp “Biodiversity on… Read More
8 tips for conflict management
In many European countries, more and more people are crowding into nature, recently pushed by the pandemic. This increases conflicts with nature conservation represented by rangers; in addition to the rarer physical injuries, there are increasingly mental injuries due to… Read More
“The increase in visitors is as challenging as vital for conservation”
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 We continue our series on national ranger associations with the UK Countryside Management Association (CMA). Chloe Bradbrooke works for National Trust as a senior ranger in West Sussex and, as international coordinator for the CMA, reports on the… Read More
Between conflict management and education for sustainable development
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Read the first interview of our new series: Many of our member associations are meeting face-to-face again for the first time since the pandemic, some have already had nationwide conferences in presence. This inspires us to start a… Read More