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A conservation officer is a law enforcement officer who protects wildlife and the environment. A conservation officer may also be referred to as an environmental technician/technologist, game warden,
Bronze sculpture of Pepe el lobero (1909-1995), renowned head forest ranger of Saja-Besaya, Spain's most important hunting reserve
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In the United Kingdom, a gamekeeper is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure that there is enough game for hunting, or fish for fishing, and acts as guide to those pursuing them.
Conservation officer
…gamekeeper, investigator, wilderness officer, wildlife officer, or wildlife trooper. Conservation officers can be traced back to the Middle Ages (see gamekeeper). Conservation law enforcement goes back to King Canute who enacted a forest law that made unauthorized hunting punishable by death. In 1861, Archdeacon…
Gamekeeper (left) with a shooter on a driven grouse shoot in the Highlands, ca. 1922
Controlled burning of heather, one of the countryside management duties of gamekeepers