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How do European rangers work, what are their current concerns and what news and solutions to ranger challenges do they report? In our interviews with representatives of national ranger associations and individual rangers, we clarify these questions.

In our ranger portraits we want to know from the rangers personally what drives and keeps them going, whereas our double portrait “Two Rangers, Two Projects" shows ranger projects that are close to the hearts of the portrayed and important for society at the same time.

He has been well connected and highly committed to the international ranger community for decades. Since the recent European Ranger Congress, Florin Halastauan from Romania ...
Worldwide, female rangers make up less than 11 per cent of the total ranger workforce. In the United Kingdom, the situation is different: female rangers ...
Mediating between humans and nature is at the heart of rangers’ work. The urgency and importance of this task prompted three volunteers with completely different ...
It was a tragic incident that led to the death of a tourist in Romania and, as a result, of a bear that left behind ...
As a ranger specialising in caves as unique habitats for countless largely unknown species, Sabrina Sedlacek practises what the IUCN, among others, refers to as ...
Working where others spend their holidays: This is certainly true for a great many rangers. In the case of Tristan Calistri, ranger in the protected ...
María Martínez Labiano is not only a ranger working with Basozainak, Environmental Guard of the Government of Navarre in Spain. She also recently completed her ...
Whether for monitoring endangered species or detecting wildlife crime: DNA samples can be an important tool out in the field. The participation of our Vice ...
The Junior Rangers of Donau-Auen National Park enjoy exciting times whenever the Danube floods turn the landscape upside down. New side arms and pools have ...
For three cruel years now, the rangers and protected area staff in the protected areas of Ukraine have been working under wartime conditions. How does ...
With a flagship project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the nature-based project developer Tellus Conservation is helping to restore a 2,900 square meter ...
Ranger Frédéric Debétaz works in the brand new Trient Valley Regional Nature Park in the Swiss canton of Valais. Although the local population has been ...
To give people a deeper, personal meaning of nature and its phenomena: What was once the hobby of archaeologist Kjell Andre Brevik is now his ...
Just watch: Wildlife biologists Barbara and Christoph Promberger couldn’t do that. Originally following the wolves roaming the Romanian Carpathians, the massive deforestation in the 2000s ...
Junior Rangers in the German federal state of Brandenburg learn about diversity on several levels: as species and habitat diversity, but also as diversity among ...
It is one of the world’s first comprehensive surveys of the state of biodiversity on a national basis, carried out by around 150 scientists and ...
When locals themselves take an active role in nature conservation, they become the greatest advocates for the protection of ‘their’ species and habitats. Around a ...
Two years ago in December, we informed about the tragic death of Spanish ranger Juan Pedro de la Cruz Sagredo. Today we report on his ...
Following the premiere of the holiday programme for orphaned ranger children between the Spanish ranger aid organisation AMINTA and the British ranger association CMA, we ...
In the Netherlands, rangering is a lot about interacting with people: While only 10 percent of the densely populated country of the Netherlands consists of ...

Meet the European Rangers

What does Rangering mean for the rangers of the European Ranger Federation and beyond, what keeps them going considering the…

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Meet the European Rangers

Two Rangers, two Projects: urban rangering and fighting wildlife crime

For one, it's about rather inconspicuous or hidden natural treasures in a metropolis; for the other, it's about combating wildlife…

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Two Rangers, two Projects: urban rangering and fighting wildlife crime