Adopt an Animal
Here at GiveCharityDonation.com, we like to give to charity as much as we can, but when it comes to making a difference, adopting an animal is perhaps one of the most fulfilling ways around. You can adopt for yourself or as a great gift for someone you know.
So the question is, what do you want to adopt?
I want to adopt a:
Adopt a tiger
In the past 100 years, wild tiger numbers have plummeted by around 95%, to just 4,000. Help protect the future of the world’s largest big cat.
How you are helping the tigers
- Restoring fragmented areas of habitat so tigers can move between them
- Strengthening anti-poaching patrols around nature reserves
- Establishing programmes to increase prey numbers
- Reducing poaching and illegal trade of live tigers and tiger parts
- Ensuring conservation laws are enforced
Adopt a dolphin
Every year, thousands of dolphins accidentally drown in fishing nets. Help reduce the threats to these intelligent, inquisitive creatures.
How you are helping the dolphins
- Ensuring the new UK marine and coastal access Bill improves management of UK seas, whilst protecting our valuable marine life, including dolphins
- Creating more protected areas in key marine habitats
- Supporting studies of dolphins in the Scottish Hebrides, including the Ileach dolphin pod
- Promoting ways to reduce the accidental ‘bycatch’ of dolphins by encouraging the use of selective fishing gear
Adopt an orangutan
Within the last decade alone, orang-utan numbers have fallen by between 30 and 50%. Help protect these gentle giants and their forest habitat.
How you are helping the orang-utans
- Achieving pan-governmental agreement to conserve the Heart of Borneo
- Creating and extending protected areas of rainforest
- Enforcing existing restrictions on the trade in live orang-utans and products such as palm oil
- Promoting sustainable use of natural resources
- Enabling local communities to manage protected areas
Adopt a polar bear
Polar bears depend on Arctic ice to hunt and raise their young. But the ice is shrinking. Help protect them and their habitat.
How you are helping the polar bears
- Conserving the Arctic region’s rich biodiversity
- Maintaining a healthy Arctic environment with undisturbed ecosystems and healthy wildlife populations
- Raising awareness of the threats of climate change that we all face
Adopt a penguin
Adélie penguins nest and feed on the Antarctic sea ice. But the ice is melting. Help protect the penguins and their habitats.
How you are helping the penguins
- Improving the management of Antarctica’s resources and safeguarding its wildlife
- Establishing a network of marine protected areas covering at least 10% of the 20 million km2 Southern Ocean
- Reducing illegal and unsustainable fishing practices
- Raising awareness of the threats of climate change we all face
Adopt a leopard
Fewer than 35 Amur leopards remain in the wild, and their habitat is under threat from logging, forest fires and land clearance for farming. Help us protect the world’s most endangered big cat.
How you are helping the Amur leopards
- Restoring and linking areas of forest, so leopards can move between habitats
- Gaining government agreement to safeguard existing nature reserves
- Promoting sustainable use of natural resources in the region
- Establishing a programme to increase prey numbers
- Equipping and training local firefighters to reduce the impact of forest fires
- Increasing fines for poaching and illegal trade of leopards and prey species
Adopt a turtle
Every year, over 250,000 marine turtles drown, entangled in the fishing lines and nets that choke the world’s oceans. Help us halt the devastation.
How you are helping the turtles
- Reducing illegal fishing
- Promoting sustainable fishing practices
- Expanding and creating Marine Protected Areas
- Helping local communities conserve and manage the natural environment
- Achieveing government agreements to ban commercial harvesting of marine turtles
Adopt a Giant Panda
It is estimated that as few as 1,600 pandas remain in the wild today. Help us halt the decline in panda numbers…
How you are helping the pandas
- Increasing the area of habitat under legal protection
- Creating green corridors to link isolated pandas
- Patrolling against poaching, illegal logging and encroachment
- Building local capacities for nature reserve mangagement
Adopt a Black Rhino
Relentless hunting for their horns and loss of their natural habitats, has led to a catastrophic fall in rhino numbers. Help us protect these incredible animals.
How you are helping the rhino
- Supporting vital conservation work throughout key rhino ranges
- Restoring and connecting fragmented areas of habitat
- Implementing effective anti-poaching measures
- Reducing consumer demand for rhino horn and its derivatives
- Improving management of rhino horn stockpiles to stop illegal trade
Adopt an Elephant
The magnificent Asian elephant is threatened by extinction in the wild. As human populations grow, its habitat is shrinking fast. Help us halt the devastation.
How you are helping the elephants
- Protecting habitats and restoring degraded biological corridors
- Supporting the development of ecotourism, which improves the livelihoods of local people and links economic development with elephant conservation
- Training and equipping anti-poaching patrols
- Strengthening conservation laws and ensuring they are enforced
- Reducing conflict between local people and elephants
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