What is the BBC’s involvement with the BBC Wildlife Fund?
In summer 2007 the BBC broadcast Saving Planet Earth, a season of TV programmes, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the world renowned BBC Natural History Unit. The programmes demonstrated how conservation can make a difference, working towards a more secure future for animals and plants in the UK and further afield internationally. We need to save a whole range of species and habitats. So the BBC set up the BBC Wildlife Fund to raise money for the work featured in the films, and other projects helping animals under threat around the world. The BBC has not donated to the BBC Wildlife Fund. As a publicly funded broadcaster it is not allowed to. What the BBC has done is to help the BBC Wildlife Fund organizers get up and running, for instance with assistance in becoming a registered charity.
