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The Crown Estate deploy UK Sea Rangers

After running the first Sea Ranger Bootcamp in March, the Sea Ranger Service has now employed its first UK Sea…

2023: Recap of a year of Sea Ranger growth

We trained more Sea Rangers We started the year recruiting new Sea Rangers. In another Sea Ranger Bootcamp, we put…

A split screen image. On the left is a black-and-white picture of the Civilian Conservation Corps, people who joined a US jobs programme initiated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. On the right, there is a colour photo of modern Sea Rangers in navy blue uniforms. Both groups of people are similarly posed for a group photo.
How did the Sea Ranger Service start?

Taking inspiration from a US government initiative devised almost 100 years ago; the Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC), the Sea…

Sea Rangers start seagrass restoration in Eastern Scheldt

In June, the Sea Rangers joined forces with the University Groningen, for scientific oversight, to transplant 2,232 cores across 13…

An underwater image of a school of fish swimming around a wreck. The ocean in the background is dark blue.
Sea Rangers offer long term protection for shipwrecks

As in previous years, when monitoring these sites our Sea Rangers are looking for any activity that could disturb these…

An underwater photo of a sea turtle swimming in clear blue waters, near a green meadow of seagrass.
Delivering on the UN High Seas treaty ambition

The purpose of all of this is to give extra protection to marine life, in order for it to replenish…

An underwater image of a school of fish swimming through a seagrass reef.
Green miracles in our blue ocean

Mighty marine meadows Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that live in shallow, coastal waters and, similar to  grasses on land,…

A Sea Ranger launches a drone into the sky, from a ship at sea, to carry out ocean conservation work. The Sea Ranger is in a red uniform, and the sky is bright.
New pilot focuses on shipping pollution

In recent years a growing number of incidents have been caused by poor container management on ships that are traveling…

A collage of six images highlights the work that the Sea Rangers do. One image is of a drone being launched for ocean conservation, another shows Sea Rangers measuring pollution levels in ocean samples; and others show the Sea Rangers in red uniforms in various poses.
Another year of action and impact

New class of Sea Rangers The beginning of 2022 saw most countries doing their best to come out of further…

An underwater image of a ship wreck. You can see that sea life has started to grow on the wreck, and there are fish swimming around the coral that has grown on the propeller.
Sea Rangers monitor North Sea heritage

The wreck sites are protected by law and harbour unique pockets of marine biodiversity, yet are increasingly disturbed, with parts…

New Sea Ranger franchising programme launched

Through the franchising, experienced entrepreneurs can apply to establish their own Sea Ranger Service, after successful participation in the Sea…

Seven Sea Rangers in uniform stand on a boat, posing for a photo. With them are Sea Ranger Service founder Wietse van der Werf, and the European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius.
European Commissioner visits Sea Ranger ship

With the Sea Ranger Service model scaling across Europe in the coming years, the commissioner showed his support for the…

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