World Ranger Day celebrates the contributions and sacrifice made by park rangers to protect national parks, wildlife and natural heritage for the benefit of all mankind.
Nearly 1,000 rangers have lost their lives on the frontlines of global conservation in gun battles with poachers and organized crime groups over the past ten years.
Global Conservation is supporting rangers in our projects from Guatemala to Thailand and Indonesia including life insurance, communications systems, trauma kits, surveillance and firepower to ensure rangers patrols are safer and better prepared.
It is important that rangers’ work is recognized and valued by society and our support improves the motivation and status of park rangers risking their lives on the frontline.
Park Rangers are increasingly coming under lethal threat due to heavily armed wildlife poachers, miners and illegal loggers in our national parks.
Global Conservation-sponsored rangers from Mirador National Park recently completed the World Ranger Congress in Colorado and are now back in Guatemala protecting the heart of the Maya Biosphere from illegal logging, poaching, land clearing and looting of archaeological sites.
Around the globe, park rangers are on the front line in the fight to protect our natural world heritage. Over 1,000 rangers have been killed in gun battles with poachers and organized crime groups over the past ten years.
World Ranger Honor Roll
The World Ranger Congress USA hosted ranger and park authority delegates from 40+ countries will explore the various ways rangers and protected area professionals are actively protecting and preserving the world's natural and cultural resources from ever-increasing threats of illegal wildlife poaching, logging and mining.
Global Conservation has recently supported the deployment of the first marine-hardened, off-grid Mobile Marine Monitor (M3) system in Machalilla National Park, Ecuador. The rocky reefs and coral communities around these islands harbor stunning biodiversity, making Machalilla one of South America’s most important MPAs. The M3 will help protect this unique ecosystem.
read moreGC has just released a new video all about Asia's last wildernesses and our efforts to protect them.
read moreOliver Fankem is a conservation biologist from Cameroon and our new Director for Central Africa.
read moreNational Geographic recently published an article underscoring Uganda’s immense conservation progress in recent decades. “Historically, the country has been praised for its environmental efforts, and behind the scenes of its 10 national parks and multiple reserves are individuals working hard keep them safe.”
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