Youth Ranger Program

Take the lead on our pioneering environmental conservation program. The Guardians of the Forest Youth Ranger Program! Help enable young and old to come together and make a positive difference. To allow local people in North Sumatra to take on ownership and responsibility for the natural environment and the animal species that share it with us!

Placement Overview:
Different Guardianships:
Community Schools Level: This provides everyone the chance to be a guardian and participate in activities. All contributions are valuable.

The community Schools Youth Ranger Program:
This program takes youth rangers through a range of workshops and interactive activities including sessions such as Tree planting, forest clean up, community composting, community recycling, Youth Rangers patrol duties and a range of theatre ‘for environmental change’ sessions.
These open workshops for different groups are delivered both at the Trust and at our target communities in Batu Ronring, Batu Katak, Bukit Lawang, Lanbau and Bohorok.
The program gives our Youth Rangers opportunities to learn about what is happening in and around the Tropical Leuser Ecosystem here in North Sumatra, its major threats and ways to protect it.
Youth Rangers are also provided with an opportunity to become a participant of the Youth on Environment Program, which is a campaign program that allows children and young people to reach out to decision makers and community stakeholders. Spreading the word and allowing their voices to be heard. Using the school banners to support their delegation event and activities.
Guardianship Achievement Program: Bronze, Silver and Gold: This pathway provides participants the opportunity to learn and develop new skills.

The Guardianship Achievement Program
Not dissimilar from the Duke of Edinburgh award in the United Kingdom, the Bronze, Silver and Gold level awards take 14-year-old and above young people through a progressive route to build employability skills whilst learning about the environment, sustainability and conservation. This development program takes participants through a range of activities and expeditions to help achieve and grow the development of new skills. Through self directed learning, participants are encouraged to have a mentor to support their journey.

Your Impact:
As a Youth Ranger Instructor you will be on the front line of environmental conservation. You will take the lead in training the next generation of Jungle Rangers to protect severely endangered species of animal such as the Sumatran Tiger, Elephant, Leopard, Rhinoceros, Orangutan & Sun Bears.
Teach your students the basics of navigation, silent communication, animal recognition and tracking, flora and fauna species and much more!
be a part of a global movement that is changing the way we see endangered species and habitats for generations to come!