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Policy expert: Rangers are frontline workers for sustainability

19 April 202315 August 2023 Editorial

Delivering global climate and biodiversity commitments requires investing in rangers as frontline workers for sustainability: This is what Marianne Kettunen, trustee of Thin Green Line Foundation UK (TGLF UK) and expert at the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of… Read More

Guest Article, Highlights, NewsConservation Policy

Good and bad news on Albania’s protected areas

18 March 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

Europe’s first wild river national park was announced last Wednesday in Albania, while urbanisation continues to be planned near the extremely valuable lagoons and bird sanctuaries of Divjaka-Karavasta National Park region. Hopefully environmentalists will one day prevail here too, as they… Read More

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ERF President at Iceland’s meeting: rangers have to act more than ever as all-in-one-device

16 March 202315 August 2023 Editorial

Although our President Urs Reif could not travel personally to the annual meeting of the rangers of Landvarðafélag Íslands, he was virtually present. With a presentation on Europe’s rangers he gave an overview of their diversity, their roles and their… Read More

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Heroes of diversity: “Rangers are nature’s first line of defence”

27 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

The Earth is facing the sixth mass extinction in history: this is what science journalist Philip Bethge writes in the German news magazine “Der Spiegel”. He accompanied rangers for a series in the run-up to the COP15 biodiversity conference to… Read More

European Rangers, Highlights, Interview, NewsConservation Policy

Force For Nature: elevating the status of rangers

12 January 202315 August 2023 Wiebke Bomas

One platform for all rangers around the world: That’s the vision of Force For Nature, an organisation committed to the belief that rangers are the best lever we have to restore nature and deliver nature-based solutions. Its main product, the… Read More

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