November Wildlife Diary

Here we'll be bringing you regular news from a range of the projects supported by the BBC Wildlife Fund. You'll be able to find out more about different aspects of their work from people based in the field.

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting SWT’s West Weald Landscape scale bat project, providing habitat for a number of rare bats and scientific work to understand them further Our wildlife diary for November reports on the delivery of a rather special hearing aid.
Images courtesy Rich Howorth SWT

October Wildlife Diary

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting the RSPB’s Saker Falcon Project in conjunction with Birdlife and the BSPB in Bulgaria, providing artificial nests for the birds far away from the human dangers that led to their decline. Our wildlife diary for October shows how this is progressing.

Sepember Wildlife Diary

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting IRDNC’s elephant project in Namibia, providing watering points which keep elephants away from villages. Our wildlife diary for September shows how this is helping to protect both elephants and communities across the country.
Image courtesy IRDNC.

August Wildlife Diary

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting Project Seahorse and the Zoological Society of London, which are helping to protect marine areas in the Philippines that are important for seahorses. Our wildlife diary for August comes from Dr Heather Koldewey.

July Wildlife Diary

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting The Charles Darwin Foundation and Galapagos Conservation Trust, which is monitoring the Flightless Cormorant and Galapagos Penguin. Our wildlife diary for July comes from Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui.
Image courtesy Pete Oxford.

June Wildlife Diary

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting FFI’s mountain gorilla programme in Uganda and Rwanda, which is helping to reduce human impact on mountain gorilla habitat. Our wildlife diary for June comes from Project Leader Annette Kembabazi.
Image courtesy FFI.

May Wildlife Diary

BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting Pretoma’s marine conservation programme in Costa Rica, helping to protect species including sharks and turtles. Our wildlife diary for May comes from Project Leader Randall Arauz.
Image courtesy Pretoma.

April Wildlife Diary

Last month Ernestina Craig Hall, Project Manager for the BBC Wildlife Fund's own department BBC Outreach, visited the Mpus Kutuk Community Conservancy whilst on a trip to Kenya. In December 2007 the BBC Wildlife Fund gave a grant of £19,371 to Tusk Trust for work in the region.
Here, Ernestina reports back on how that grant has been used.

March Wildlife Diary

With your help BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London with scarlet macaw conservation in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. Our wildlife diary for March comes from Roan Balas McNab.

February Wildlife Diary

With your help BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting the RSPB and Birdlife International’s Albatross Task Force in Brazil. Our wildlife diary for February comes from Fabiano Peppes, ATF-Brazil Coordinator.

January Wildlife Diary

With your help BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting Fauna and Flora International's Cambodian Crocodile Conservation Programme. Our wildlife diary for January comes from Adam Starr, their new Programme Co-ordinator.
January image courtesy Jeremy Holden, FFI

December Wildlife Diary

With your help BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting Save the Rhino International's Rhino Protection Units and Sumatran Rhino Breeding Programme in Sumatra, Indonesia. Our Wildlife Diary for December comes from Didin Kamaludin, Head of Rhino Protection Unit No 4.

November Wildlife Diary

With your help BBC Wildlife Fund is supporting the WDCS Outer Moray Firth Cetacean Research Project, Scotland, and our Wildlife Diary for November comes from Charlie Phillips, WDCS Field Officer.
November image courtesy WDCS/Charlie Phillips