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
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2024 Review & New Year’s greetings from ERF President!
What a year! 2024 has also kept us at the ERF busy for rangers & nature conservation in Europe and beyond. Where has it taken us? Check out the review by our ERF President Urs Reif! We from the entire… Read More
Working on a nature-friendly society with Nature Interpretation
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 profession. As nature and cultural heritage interpreter in the Trøndelag region of central Norway, he… Read More
Exploring the ranger app jungle with Swiss Rangers
A jungle in Europe? Sure – at least in the digital world of apps for ranger work that the Swiss Rangers see. They have therefore invited to their annual exchange of experiences organised by Pro Natura, a Swiss environmental organisation,… Read More
ERF November Newsletter
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
„Locals needed on board to make Yellowstone in Europe come true“
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 shocked the couple so much that they began to mobilise funds around the world. To… Read More
Junior Rangers: Anchoring understanding of human and natural diversity in society
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 themselves and how it contributes to joint solutions and functioning democracy. Moritz Detel was a… Read More
“Rangers can be key to understand the importance of species diversity”
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 recently presented for Germany: the Biodiversity Fact Check by the Research Initiative for the Conservation… Read More
ERF October Newsletter
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
Citizen Science in Serbia: 6 new species worldwide and 29 hearts for nature
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 river protected area in western Serbia, this has worked out perfectly: The nature conservation NGO… Read More