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So, you could not resist pushing that button! . We hoped you would do that because we wanted your attention for:

CONSERVATION'S DARKEST SECRET

Nobody wants to talk about it. Conservationists in the wealthy countries asked the developing countries to set aside 10% of their territories as protected areas. And guess what? Nobody thought they would, but they did! Most countries in the world have 10% or more of their territory protected under some form of protection. Not always perfect, but it is an unbelievably great start! However, protected areas need field staff, particularly park rangers.  

Conservation organizations  and Development institutions everywhere in the world have a policy to not contribute to staffing protected areas. They prefer to do popular activities, such as working with local communities and do great studies in the field. That makes them very popular and appreciated, but the institutions that really should be doing that, are the Protected Areas Agencies of the country themselves! But since they don't get the finances for their important tasks, the conservation organizations do that kind of work, thus harvesting the credit.

Everybody agrees that field staff and rangers are essential for managing national parks and other protected areas. Everybody agrees that much more field staff is needed, and also that it is not reasonable to expect the governments in developing countries to pay for it all by themselves. But when one asks, who should help bridge the gap in financing and staffing the protected areas, only very few organizations and institutions are willing to make at least some contribution. It is far more convenient to blame the governments of developing countries and spend the money on popular fun things that give your organization or institution a great popular benevolent image. But in the mean time, conservation is failing! The founders of Adopt A Ranger, have been raising this issue for more than a decade, but since no organization was willing to address this problem, so they decided to create Adopt A Ranger, specifically to address this problem. We appeal to you to join us in this gigantic challenge.  Click here to find out how the problem can be solved while having some personal benefits and fun as well!

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The Adopt A Ranger website is part of an integrated net of nature conservation information websites. The following table lists the latest news on those combined websites: 

WHAT'S NEW

April

ILWIS 3.6 With many raster format import and export modules!Click here

January

Fabulous packing lists for travelers for different kinds of destinations (jungle, mountains, beach, cities, etc.)  and travel types (car, plane, back packing, etc.)

Forum entry on travel info, like countless phone numbers and links to airlines, great booking sites, etc, for several countries 

Album entry on the forum where you can upload species of birds, plants, mammals etc. that you want identified. 

We made a page on essentials for simple hand-held GPS

December

Dialogue on traditional medicines and nature conservation 

New countries: Cape Verde, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea  Sao Tome & Principe; Seychelles

Birdlists of all West African countries updates

Birdlists of all East African countries updates

November

WICE analyses the conservation status of the Godwit for the World Bank: Wintering grounds of entire population will disappear in Guinea Bissau. Read more.......

Run ILWIS on Linux. Read more...

Nature Worldwide forums heavily spammed and cleaned. Read more......

ILWIS downloads from ILWIS.ORG since initiation surpassed 10.000!

Collaboration with Bo Beolens' famous fatbirder website

New tables for all major countries in South America

Adopt a Ranger under attack of major check scam! Read more........

The new ILWIS 3.5 is out

April

Updated GIS software review on GIS4BIOLOGISTS

Posting on Natuurlijke Procesgang in de Oostvaarders Plassen (in Dutch)

Posting on effect to oxygen production and carbon fixation by trees and forests

A downloadable pdf with the text of the entire Adopt A Ranger website

A completely renewed computer software and service page with lots of free software

Unsere Deutsche übersetzung von Adopt A Ranger macht gute Vortschritte

March

The data on protected areas have been re-loaded

Updated review of essential and free software

US Government kills Yellowstone National Park bisons or buffaloes

February

"Slaughtering of Seals in Namibia": Take a look at a long ignored nature management issue

Updated info on free satellite images as well as a great new viewer tool on gis4biologists

Test if your web connection is fast enough for free internet phone calls. Minimum requirement is about 1 mbps. This broadband speed test has been created by AuditMyPC

Nature Worldwide webnet is spread over about 20 websites with different domains per theme visited by half a million visits per year Click for our real visitation statistics

Fatbirder's Top 500 Birding Websites
Nature Worldwide / Birdlist and Fatbirder collaborate closely. We provide the best bird lists on the net and fatbirder of Bo Beolens provides all sorts of background and travel  information through weblinks.
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Adopt A Ranger Inc. is incorporated in West Virginia, USA, registered under control number 90701 enjoying exemption of Federal income tax under section 501 (c) (3) and in the Netherlands Stichting Adopt A Ranger under S200823

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