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ADOPT A RANGER
So,
you could not resist pushing that button!
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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!
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
WICE analyses the conservation status
of the Godwit
for the World Bank:
Wintering grounds of entire population will disappear in Guinea Bissau. Read
more.......
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
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.
For your convenience we prepared a text version of this website, which you
can download here: Download Adopt A Ranger Webtext
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With
continuously changing exchange rates between Euros and US Dollars, there
are some difference between the mentioned values in € and $. We apologize
that we can't continuously change the values and use nearby equivalents in
rounded off figures.
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WARNING:
if you decide to make a contribution to Adopt A Ranger, please always make
your payments either by paying electronically:
(1) by credit card or Paypal over the
internet, (2) by a bank to bank transfer or (3) by check,
while stating at the back of a check that it can only be cashed into the
bank account of Adopt A Ranger. Please never donate cash, because we
cannot audit fundraisers and we cannot control if your generous
contribution actually gets into our accounts. If in doubt, send us an
email. Please contact us by email if you are concerned about the
legitimacy of a fundraisers or the appropriateness of the fundraising
methods applied. Please read our
disclaimer carefully.
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On most
pages you will see words in bold that are frequently repeated. These are
search words and phrases for the search engines. Please forgive us when
they sometimes undermine our text style. Those words and phrases
help other visitors find our website.
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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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