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In my first one and a half week as EU Coordinator, I have seen some confusion about adding new areas to the WWFF program. We can´t run a global Flora Fauna Program without rules. From my point of view, we have a few simple rules in World Wide Flora Fauna. Most of them from the very beginning. See: GLOBAL RULES. In this Article I will try to sort out a few issues and questions.
1.When does an area qualify for a new number ?
Most of the areas qualifying for WWFF can be found at https://www.protectedplanet.net/
Not all areas in Protected Planet can be used, it has to be in one of the following Categories :
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IUCN (Catagoty Ia to VI)
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Natura2000
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Natural World Heritage Sites
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Biosphere Reserves
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Ramsar
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Marine Protected Areas
Each National Program can adopt up to 200 new references per calendar year.
The National Coordinator in each Contry have the mandate to decide which areas.
Activators have to apply proposals for new refs to their National Coordinator. Continue reading
This past Wednesday I woke up at 3:00am, with temperatures just under 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 C) and made my way to the Harrisburg Airport in my home state of Pennsylvania. By the end of the day I was setting up my radio equipment in Oleta River State Park for another WWFF-KFF activation just outside Miami, Florida, where temperatures were 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 C). It’s nice to experience some warm weather in February!
Denise and I got up at 6.30am to walk our dog before having breakfast and setting out for Dunwich on the Suffolk coast.
ONFF-0573 is a very small area in north-east Belgium.
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