World Wide Flora & Fauna - Australia
  • WELCOME
  • ABOUT AUSTRALIA's PARKS
  • ABOUT AUSTRALIA's FLORA & FAUNA
  • VKFF TEAM
    • Treasurer and bank account
    • Donations
    • Former VKFF Team members
  • VKFF RULES
  • HOW TO GET STARTED IN WWFF
    • Activators
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  • HOW TO WORK ACTIVATORS
  • SPOTTING AND ALERTING
  • ALL ABOUT WWFF LOGSEARCH
  • HOW TO REGISTER WITH LOGSEARCH
    • Troubles with registering
  • HOW TO APPLY FOR AWARDS
  • HOW TO CREATE AN ACTIVATOR LOG
    • Video on how to create logs
    • Naming of log files
    • Log upload process
    • ADIF files
    • CSV template
    • Fast Log Entry
    • Port-a-log
    • Log errors and corrections
  • QUALIFYING AUSTRALIAN PARKS
    • Australian Capital Territory (VK1)
    • New South Wales (VK2) >
      • VK2 Qualifying parks
    • Victoria (VK3) >
      • VK3 Qualifying parks
    • Queensland (VK4) >
      • Qualifying VK4 Parks
    • South Australia (VK5) >
      • VK5 qualifying parks
      • Deleted VK5 parks
    • Western Australia (VK6) >
      • VK6 qualifying parks
    • Tasmania (VK7) >
      • VK7 Qualifying Parks
    • Northern Territory (VK8) >
      • Qualifying VK8 parks
    • Other Australian areas (VK9 & VK0)
  • AWARDS & RECIPIENTS
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    • VKFF DX Hunter >
      • VKFF DX Hunter award recipients
    • OCCFF Hunter Award >
      • Australian OCCFF recipients
      • Overseas OCCFF recipients
    • Murray River Parks Award >
      • Murray River Parks Hunter certificate recipients
      • Murray River Parks Activator certificate recipients
    • VKFF Worked All Australia
    • Special awards >
      • Greater Blue Mountains Area
      • 2020 National Bird Week
      • Barrington Tops National Park
      • 2019 National Bird Week
      • 2019 National Wattle Day
      • National Parks & Wildlife Service VK5
      • National Tree Day
      • World Ranger Day 2019
      • Gondwana Parks Award
      • NSW NPWS 50 year celebrations
      • 2018 National Bird Week
    • Global awards >
      • Park to Park Award
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  • Top VKFF Foundation Hunter
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  • HISTORY
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VKFF RULES & AWARDS

A copy of the WWFF Australia (VKFF) rules

For a full version of the WWFF Australia (VKFF) National Rules, please see below.....
vkff_rules_version_0.6.pdf
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How do parks in Australia qualify for WWFF?

'World Wide Flora & Fauna in amateur radio' (WWFF) was born out of the old 'World Flora & Fauna' (WFF) program which is now defunct.  


The original WFF list was created in 2008.  It is not entirely clear how the original list of Australian (VKFF) Parks was prepared.  No response has been received from the founders of the old WFF program.  The WFF list was adopted by WWFF.  The original list of Australian parks were predominantly National Parks, with a few exceptions, e.g. Recreation Park, Marine Park.


In January 2014, over 100 Australian National Parks were added to the WWFF Directory and were allocated VKFF reference numbers.  These parks were omitted from the 'original' list when it was created in 2008.  These parks had been established & gazetted prior to 2008, but for whatever reason had been left off the VKFF Australian list. 
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Since that time the VKFF program has been expanded in various parts of Australia including Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania, South Australia, under the 'old' percentage activation rule.

The current WWFF rules allow the adding of WWFF reference areas and the expansion of National programs.  In Australia, up to 500 new reference areas can be added each calendar year.

Proposed areas need to fall within the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Areas Categories System found in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).  The database can be found at.......

www.protectedplanet.net/ 
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VKFF Awards

The VKFF Awards are available to 'Activators', 'Hunters' & SWL's.

'Activators' are those amateurs who operate portable from within designated Australian parks.

'Hunters' are those amateurs who make contact with 'Activators' who are operating portable from within designated Australian parks.

'SWL's' are those listeners who log the activities of 'Activators'.
 
All Awards will be forwarded via email to the applicant after applying for the award/s via Logsearch.  For those wishing the award certificate/s to be mailed, the certificates will be sent upon payment of the required fee (see below).  The Awards are printed out on high quality A4 size gloss photo paper.



Full details on the awards can be found on the Award pages.

Cost of VKFF Awards

All VKFF awards are FREE.


They are ONLY available via WWFF Log Search.
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If however, you would like the certificates mailed (perhaps you don't have a colour printer), the certificates can be mailed at a cost of $5.00 per certificate.  Please contact Paul VK5PAS at vk5pas@wia.org.au