WWFF Protected Flora Fauna worldwide Web

""World Wide Flora & Fauna in Amateur Radio   ( wwff.co)

“Make nature your shack !“

WWFF, World Wide Flora and Fauna in Amateur Radio, is encouraging to leave your shack and go outside portable operating in Protected Flora@Fauna areas (PFF) all over the world.

More than 24.000 Protected Flora@Fauna (PFF) areas, world wide are already registered in our WWFF Directory. Hunters and Activators can apply for colorful awards, globally and national.""

The above wordings are from the main page. Please do visit for more interesting and useful  information.

Almost all the European Countries and many from other continents  are members, Each country puts  XXFF -xxxx  as the WWFF site number for activation. The logs are uploaded to the main site, so that for Awards, you can do a log search and get your score and automatically apply for the award. 

"The term 'Lets Save the Green Planet Earth' was initiated as the slogan for the WFF program.  Operators were encouraged whilst having a QSO with a WFF expedition, to transmit two figures…..'44'.  This meant 'Forty Four - Flora Fauna' and was interpreted as the slogan for WFF.

The first digit '4' represents the four elements: earth, water, air, and fire.
The second digit '4' represents the four directions: north, south, west, & east. 

To this day, you will still hear operators using '44'.  "

The Indian thoughts involving 5 elements, 8 directions  are almost shown above.

  

India is  also  in the WWFF  group. India has over a 100 sites listed in the directory, with around 9 only activated. The new generation of  VU  hams must take the relay baton.

The Indian VUFF coordinator for the time being is Arasu VU2UR. If you have the interest to continue and expand the activity, this position is waiting for you.

Best 44/73 

Arasu  VU2UR

VUFF-0103 LAKSHADWEEP MARINE BIOSPHERE RESERVE- MINICOY

VUFF-0103 LAKSHADWEEP MARINE BIOSPHERE  RESERVE- MINICOY Is.

This Lakshadweep marine biosphere reserve was activated during the MALIKU(MINICOY) DXPEDITION with the special amateur radio call sign : VU7M, between 13th to 22nd August 2012, by a group of operators with calls: VU2UR - Arasu, VU2LX - Laxmanan, VU2GGM - Govind Girmaji, VU2LU- Ramesh Kumar (Mrs Gowri, XYL of VU2LU), VU3VRL Ramesh and VU2JHM - Lion Ajoy. This activated IOTA AS-106

 The Minicoy lighthose , WLOL ARLHS LAK009, World Lighthouse on the Air WLOTA N 2958, was also activated from within its campus. The Light house of the island is one of the oldest and was constructed in 1885. The Expedition thanks the staff of Lighthouse, for the guest house accommodation and  all the hospitality.

Minicoy, locally known as Maliku; is an island in Lakshadweep group, India. Along with Viringili,  It is on Maliku atoll, the southernmost atoll of Lakshadweep archipelago. . Minicoy is the second largest and the southernmost among the islands of the Lakshadweep archipelago. It is located 201 km to the southsouthwest of Kalpeni, at the southern end of the Nine Degree Channel and 125 km to the north of Thuraakunu, Maldives, at the northern end of the Eight Degree Channel.

 The atoll is 10 km in length, having a maximum breadth of about 3 km. The island is full of Coconut trees, Mangroves. There is a Coconut research station and a Navodaya School. There is a Krishna Temple. A few auto rickshas exist and they ply with the tourists. The entire island is populated by followers of Islam. A Minicoy male resident easily gets a job on any maritime vessel, as they are known to be good sailors from their birth. There are 11 villages, tuna canning factory, and  the light house. Fishing and canning, and processing of Coconut, are the industries.

 Tourist resorts are available.

Foreigners and Indians too require permits to visit. Please visit the sites available for more information.

Unfortunately, the  log of this activation is NOT YET uploaded to WWFF. Inconvenience caused is regretted.

VUFF-0101 DAROJI SLOTH BEAR SANCTUARY.

VUFF-0101  DAROJI SLOTH BEAR SANCTUARY:

Location: Daroji Bear Sanctuary (82.72 sq. km) , Kamalapura, Bellary District of Karnataka State.
This VUFF site was activated from 1st to 10th Oct 2010  with the special amateur radio call sign   
VU0WFF. Operators were VU2LX , VU2JHM and VU2UR.   Yes, we were  BARE/BEAR  footed with lots of power cuts without backup as it is a low budget setup with sole interest as Amateurs only.  Thanks to those who have come on different bands and worked us.   

The Hampi Kannada University was very  kind enough to accomodate our team in their Guest House - Kadambari . We thank the Vice-Chancellor and Register of K U  Campus, Kamalapura for this kind gesture.

Daroji Bear Sanctuary has Sloth Bear Species the one of the 8 types of Bears in the world and another most interesting is a unique bird - Yellow Throated  Bulbul which is very particular in this area. This Sanctuary  is the only place where one can spot these Sloth bears, who are the honey-lovers endemic to India. The sanctuary is located in Ballari District. The Sanctuary has a rough terrain and during the visit, tourist can spot animals like jackals, wild boars, mongoose, black-naped hares, leopards etc.  The sanctuary maintains a good number of sloth bears who are hidden in the caves in the green-covered hillocks.  There is a watch tower for sighting the bears. The mother bears carry their  young ones, piggy back, which is unique.  Estimated visiting period is about 2 to 3 hours.

The QSLs are available through eQSL.cc

Open from 0600 to 1800 Hrs IST.  Entry fee: INR 50 per pax Indian; INR 300 per pax Foreigner. Parking: INR 500 per car.

Please visit: http://www.bellary.nic.in/bearpark.htm,    and    http://picasaweb.google.com/lionajoy/VU0WFFDarojiSlothBearSanctuary?feat=directlink

VUFF-0099 MAITRI ANTARCTIC BASE STATION of India

VUFF-0099  MAITRI  ANTARCTIC  BASE  STATION  of  India

VU3BPZ /AT10BP   OM   Bhagwati Prasad Semwal, Communications Officer, Antarctica (WAP IND-03) activated  this VUFF-0099  from 20 November 2009  to  28 feb 2011 .

Maitri is India's second permanent research station in Antarctica as part of the Indian Antarctic Programme.  Maitri is situated in the rocky mountainous region called Schirmacher Oasis. It is only 5 km away from the Russian Novolazarevskaya Station.  Location of Maitri Station in  Antarctica. coordinates: 70°46′00″S 11°43′53″E

The station has modern facilities to research in various disciplines, such as biology, earth sciences, glaciology, atmospheric sciences, meteorology, cold region engineering, communication, human physiology, and medicine. It can accommodate 25 people for winter. Freshwater is provided through a freshwater lake named Lake Priyadarshini, in front of Maitri.  National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research,  plans the activities of  Maitri Base.

Unfortunately, the log  could not be uploaded   as  logs and  QSLs for this operation was managed by the great WAP enthusiast OM Gianni Varetto of Italy

All those who worked VU3BPZ, AT10BP  may claim the VUFF award, by sending data to VU2UR for the issue of Award, as WWFF log search, is not having the logs.