That’s a Wrap for Junior Rangers 2025!

Well that’s a wrap for the year for the Junior Ranger program in 2025! Community Engagement Rangers Natasha, Stacey and KP would like to thank the parent helpers, the experts, the organisations and the 120 very excited junior rangers for a fantastic year of adventures in 2025!

That’s a wrap for Junior Rangers 2025!

Well that’s a wrap for the year for the Junior Ranger program in 2025!

Community Engagement Rangers Natasha, Stacey and KP were kept busy over the cooler months of 2025, coordinating crews of excited junior rangers and their families in Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs.

Highlights in Alice Springs this year included a bat night with Dr Erin Westerhuis and her bat detecting dogs, water-bug surveys with Jayne Brim-Box, learning about fire safety with rangers at Simpson Gap, Buffel busting with the Buffel Grass team, feeding nocturnal animals at the Alice Springs Desert Park and an absolutely amazing excursion out to Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve to learn about the importance of the area to the Aboriginal Traditional Owners from Ranger Doug.

KP and the Alice Springs junior rangers families would like to send a huge shout-out to Kelly Knights, the Northern Territory Ranger Association and the Community Benefit Fund for funding the bus that got everyone safe and sound out to Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve.

The Katherine junior rangers spent term 2 searching for frogs in the Low Level picnic area, exploring Baruwei Loop Track and learning about the significant cultural and ecological values of Nitmiluk National Park, hiking safely on the way to Long Hole Pool, watching the Little Red Flying Foxes ‘fly-out’ for the night along the Katherine River and investigating pest management and how it fits into the day of a park ranger.

In Darwin, 60 junior rangers and Ranger Natasha learnt about conservation by helping the Casuarina Coastal Reserve Landcare Group maintain plantings of casuarina trees in the coastal dunes. They also identified international travellers while bird watching at Lee Point, explored the NT Herbarium and made their own plant specimens, and learnt about the importance of fauna surveys from the experts at the Territory Wildlife Park.

Stay tuned and stay in touch in 2026 to find out what adventures are in store as we celebrate the 35th anniversary year of the NT Parks and Wildlife junior ranger program.