International Ranger Federation

Asian Ranger Forum. Held December 5-8 2023 in Guwahati India. The 1st Asian Rangers Forum provided a unique opportunity for rangers and organizations supporting rangers from all over Asia to gather together and collaborate on issues affecting rangers globally. The Forum offered a platform for rangers to share knowledge create partnerships and build capacity through a cross pollination of ideas techniques and best practice conservation management initiatives that have been tried and tested in conservation areas around Asia.

Equity Equality and Rights EER in the Ranger Workforce. The IRF is working to coordinate the consultation process and to develop a policy on equity and equality by establishing the subject and volume of existing documents within but not limited to the ranger workforce; assessing the effectiveness of policies their level of implementation potential shortcomings and gaps that are to be addressed within the new policy and guidelines on how such policy could be implemented and surveys on this subject. Report to be completed in 2024.

State of the Ranger Report. The IRF is leading the development of the first ever report on the global state of the ranger profession which will be published at the next 10th IRF World Ranger Congress in Hyeres France in October 2024. The report will be the first global baseline of where the ranger profession currently stands including the assimilation of the best available internationally comparable data on the ranger workforce.