Our planet is facing increasing challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, poverty, and many other problems closely linked to a deteriorating environment. Meanwhile, one of our most important assets, rangers working in protected and conserved areas responsible for managing large tracts of the planet's lands and waters, are often underutilized, underrecognized and underequipped. They are generally left out of the debate about conservation and sustainable development policy, despite being central to the success of those policies. This paper outlines the need for global leaders across multiple sectors to recognize the profession of rangers as essential planetary health workers and to position rangers more effectively within global conservation and environmental policy mechanisms. It introduces the challenges facing rangers, the emerging diversity of roles within the ranger profession and the important contribution of rangers to conservation and sustainable development. It presents policy and implementation avenues to improve recognition and professionalization of rangers as key executors of conservation and development policy, particularly considering the recent Global Biodiversity Framework ambitions.

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重要的行星卫生工作者：在全球政策中定位护林员

我们的星球正面临着越来越多的挑战：气候变化、生物多样性丧失、流行病、贫困以及与环境恶化密切相关的许多其他问题。与此同时，我们最重要的资产之一，即在保护区和保护区工作、负责管理地球上大片土地和水域的护林员，却往往没有得到充分利用、未被充分认识和装备不足。尽管它们对这些政策的成功至关重要，但它们通常被排除在有关保护和可持续发展政策的辩论之外。本文概述了多个部门的全球领导人需要认识到护林员这一职业是重要的行星卫生工作者，并在全球保护和环境政策机制中更有效地定位护林员。它介绍了护林员面临的挑战，护林员职业中新兴的角色多样性以及护林员对保护和可持续发展的重要贡献。它提出了政策和实施途径，以提高对护林员作为保护和发展政策的主要执行者的认识和专业化，特别是考虑到最近的全球生物多样性框架的雄心。