The Environment and Conservation Division (ECD) under Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) handed over ID cards for rangers of Pamahima Tribal Forest Protected Area (PA) through its Project Partners, Ecological Solutions Foundation (ESF) witnessed by FAO IFMP.
This was to complete the formality in empowering and recognition of rangers to do their duty within the recently launched protected area. A total of eleven (11) rangers from PTFPA were formally appointed and issued with Rangers IDs by the Director of Environment and Conservation Division (ECD) under the Ministry of Environment Climate Change Disaster Management and Meteorology.
Amongst eleven, five (5) of them are female and six are (6) males. The appointment of rangers by the Protected Area Management Committee is an important requirement for the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Protected Areas management plans as mandated under the Protected Area Act 2010.
Director Environment and Conservation Division, Josef Hurutarau in handing over identification cards to rangers of PTFPA said, this signifies your identification & important role as Rangers empowered under the subsidiary Protected Areas Regulations 2012 to manage the protected area site.
