 Nightingale was a co-founder and vice chairman of the BBC Wildlife Fund, a conservation charity established in 2007.Its appeals raised over £3 million for endangered species conservation, and it has funded almost 90 projects in the UK and around the world.From 2002 until 2009, Nightingale was a trustee of Wildscreen, a charity which organises the biennial wildlife film festival of the same name in Bristol.