How do ERF rangers work, what are their current concerns and what news and solutions to ranger challenges do they report? In our interview series on our National Ranger Federations, we clarify these questions. And in our ranger portraits we want to know from the rangers personally what drives them and motivates them again and again, despite all the hardships that rangering entails.
As many national parks as there are in relatively small Austria: There are only a few full-time rangers, as Manuela Jenicek, ranger in the Thayatal ...
In many places, rangers in Spain are currently mainly concerned with the consequences of droughts and the prevention, investigation and extinguishing of forest fires. We ...
Seasonal contracts, limited opportunities for job development, too few colleagues: Iceland’s rangers continue to lose a lot of ranger knowledge as colleagues turn their backs ...
Shelli Nahari has worked at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority for twelve and a half years. She is one of just a few female ...
One of Europe’s smallest countries has had a ranger for just under two years: Tom Schmit works for the Öewersauer Nature Park, one of three ...
Thinking of Malta, many will remember the case of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who died in 2017 due to a bomb hidden in the ...
Croatia is booming as a tourist destination, its extremely diverse nature with numerous waters, islands, beaches, cliffs and mountains groaning under masses of tourists. For ...
Romania had its first national park as early as 1938: Retezat National Park in the southeast. One of the first rangers there and in Romania ...
Being a ranger in Finland: In Nuuksio national park this often means working a lot with volunteers, but also prisoners. It does for Teemu Laine: ...
The National Protected Areas Control Agency (NPACA) started as an NGO in Bulgaria three years ago to establish not only the ranger profession, but also ...
The fact that rangers are not taken seriously becomes a problem if we want to protect at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and ...
Our project officer Maia has established the Georgian Ranger Association with the help of the international ranger network in 2019. Only recently at the ERC ...
As adviser for nature protection for the Government of Vojvodina in Serbia, Lorand Vigh is closely involved in the management of protected areas of the ...
Looking back on the pandemic, Yannick Bucher also sees hope for the future of ranger work in Switzerland. As a member of the board of ...
Luke Taylor’s story exemplifies the development of rangers in Scotland in recent years: After starting as a ranger in 2016, he has had various seasonal ...
In the latest episode of our series on national ranger associations, we visit Albania and its rangers – hosts of our European Ranger Congress (ERC) ...
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 We continue our series on national ranger associations with the UK Countryside Management Association (CMA). Chloe Bradbrooke works for National Trust as a ...
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 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 ...
What does Rangering mean for the rangers of the European Ranger Federation, what keeps them going considering the many challenges…
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