WWF – Adopt a Wild Animal

Buy a present with a difference by ADOPTING A WILD ANIMAL for as little as £3.00 a month.

You’ll be helping us safeguard the future of these endangered species and your friend or loved one will receive the following:

  • A gorgeous soft toy of your animal
  • A fact booklet about your adopted species
  • A print of your adopted animal
  • A greetings card
  • Tips on a ‘greener’ lifestyle
  • Updates on your species in our 4-monthly newsletter, Insight

Adopt an animal with WWF

Adopt a Polar Bear with WWFADOPT A POLAR BEAR

NAME: Svalbard polar bears
SPECIES: Polar Bear

The polar bears are a group of male and female bears aged between 5 and 12 years old. They live in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, which belongs to Norway. Svalbard is made up of three larger islands and numerous smaller islands and approximately 60% of the archipelago is covered in glaciers. Polar bears are found in the Arctic landscapes of Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and Alaska. Research has shown that more than a quarter of polar bear populations are in decline and if current global warming trends continue, polar bears may become extinct within 100 years.

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Adopt a Tiger with WWFADOPT A TIGER

NAME: Kamrita (The word Kamrita comes from the region of the wildlife reserve where she’s most often spotted – the Amrite area.)
SPECIES: Bengal Tiger

She is a female Bengal tiger living in Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal. She is around 7-8 years old, and has been photographed on several occasions with two young cubs.
Kamrita represents all the tigers we help.

All our tiger adopters ‘adopt’ Kamrita so that we can share her ongoing story with you. We hope that by following Kamrita’s progress, you can experience the challenges and success involved in conserving this most charismatic of big cats.

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Adopt a Dolphin with WWFADOPT A DOLPHIN

NAME: The Ileach dolphin pod
SPECIES: Bottlenose Dolphin

This pod of bottlenose dolphins live around the Inner Hebridean Islands, off the west coast of Scotland. They are often sighted around the Island of Islay, which is how they got their name. The pod is made up of males and females and individual members are identified by markings on their dorsal fins.

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Adopt a Panda with WWFADOPT A PANDA

NAME: Zhu Xiong (pronounced Ju-Shong) meaning ‘Bamboo Bear’
SPECIES: Giant panda

Zhu Xiong was only two years old when she was found in a small farming village in the Pingwu district of China. WWF staff moved her to the Wanglang reserve, the oldest and most remote reserve in China, where she joined 30 other pandas. Pandas are the rarest bears and their forest habitat is fast disappearing. Forest loss is caused by expansion of agricultural land, intensive harvesting of timber, use of wood for fuel and other forest products, and overgrazing. Each year an area of forest larger than the UK is lost – a rate of 30 hectares every minute.

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Adopt an Orangutan with WWFADOPT AN ORANG-UTAN

NAME: Koyah (named after a river which has its headwaters in the Ulu Segama Forest Reserve)
SPECIES: Orang-Utan

Koyah is a young male orang-utan who lives in the northern part of Ulu Segama Forest Reserve in eastern Sabah, Borneo. He is still cared for by his mother, Ibu (which means ‘mother’ in Malay). Young orang-utans wean at around 3½ years of age, and gradually become independent of their mothers.

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Adopt an Elephant with WWFADOPT AN ELEPHANT

NAME: Kiruba (meaning Grace)
SPECIES: Asian Elephant

Kiruba is an Asian elephant and lives in Corbett National Park, in the Terai Arc lowlands of India. She has a son and a daughter, and is the dominant female in an extended family of more than 20 elephants. As the matriarch of the group, she is relied upon to find food, water and safe habitat.

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Adopt a Rhino with WWFADOPT A RHINO

NAME: Kinyanjui (named after a long-term supporter of rhino conservation in Kenya)
SPECIES: Black Rhino

Kinyanjui is a male African black rhino living in Nairobi National Park, Kenya. He is around 40 years of age and may have fathered at least six calves. Researchers identify him by his horn shape – he has a very long front horn that curves inwards, and a back horn almost half the size.

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Adopt a Penguin with WWFADOPT A PENGUIN

NAME: The penguins of Adélie land
SPECIES: Adélie Penguin

You can adopt five Adélie penguins – a mix of male and female individuals from a colony of 500-600 at the Dumont d’Urville base on Pointe Géologie archipelago, in an area of the Antarctic known as Adélie land. We are monitoring the colony to find out how they are adapting to climate change.
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Adopt a Leopard with WWFADOPT A LEOPARD

NAME: Tolstyi, El’duga and Narva
SPECIES: Amur Leopard

Tolstyi is male and his name means well-fed and stocky. He either battled for or inherited his home range at least 10 years ago. El’duga and Narva are females. El’duga is the only surviving female in her home range. Narva’s territory is mostly boggy, lowland meadows, an unusual habitat for an Amur leopard, although she seems to have adapted well.
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Adopt a Penguin with WWFADOPT A TURTLE

NAME: The Hawksbill turtles of Yadua Taba
SPECIES: Hawksbill Turtle

The adopted hawksbill turtles live in the waters around Fiji. We have identified five females who return each year to nest on Talice beach, on the uninhabited island of Yadua Taba. We use flipper tags to track and record the turtles’ locations, to help us find out more about their movement patterns.
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