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Adopt an Animal

Conserve Wildlife: Adopt-An-Animal or Adopt Animal Habitat

Help protect wildlife by adopting your favorite wild animal, or adopting an animal for someone else as a gift. Below you will find a list of links to various agencies that offer animal adoption programs, sorted by animal. As an alternative to a single animal sponsorship, at the end of this list, you will also find links to adopt habitat that contains many animals.

Adopt-A-Bat

• Batworld Sanctuary
• The Land Conservancy

Adopt-A-Bear

• adoption.co.uk
• Brown Bear Resources
• National Wildlife Federation

Adopt-A-Butterfly

• The Land Conservancy

Adopt-A-Chimpanzee

• The Jane Goodall Institute

Adopt-A-Crocodile

• adoption.co.uk

Adopt-A-Dolphin

• adoptwildlife.org
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Pacific Whale Foundation
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Adopt-An-Elephant

• adoptwildlife.org
• Defenders of Wildlife
• The Davis Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Adopt-A-Frog

• adoption.co.uk
• The Nature Trust of New Brunswick

Adopt-A-Gorilla

• adoption.co.uk
• adoptwildlife.org
• The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
• Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund

Adopt-A-Lion

• adoption.co.uk

Adopt-A-Lynx

• National Wildlife Federation

Adopt-A-Manatee

• Save the Manatee Club

Adopt-A-Moose

• National Wildlife Federation
• adoption.co.uk

Adopt-An-Orangutan

• BOS USA
• Sepilok Orangutan Appeal UK

Adopt-An-Owl

• Defenders of Wildlife
• The Land Conservancy

Adopt-A-Panda

• Pandas International

Adopt-A-Panther

• Defenders of Wildlife

Adopt-A-Polar Bear

• Defenders of Wildlife
• National Wildlife Federation
• World Wildlife Fund

Adopt-A-Rhino

• International Rhino Foundation
• adoptwildlife.org

Adopt-A-Salmon Family

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Adopt-A-Sea Otter

• Defenders of Wildlife

Adopt-A-Seal

• adoption.co.uk
• The Marine Mammal Center
• The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation

Adopt-A-Shark

• adoption.co.uk

Adopt-A-Snow Leopard

• International Snow Leopard Trust

Adopt-A-Tiger

• adoption.co.uk
• adoptwildlife.org
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Forever Tigers

Adopt-A-Tortoise

• National Wildlife Federation

Adopt-A-Turtle

• Ecology Project International

Adopt-A-Whale

• Defenders of Wildlife
• International Wildlife Coalition
• Pacific Whale Foundation
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Adopt-A-Wolf

• adoption.co.uk
• Defenders of Wildlife
• National Wildlife Federation

Adopt Habitat

Rather than adopting a single animal, you can also preserve a habitat that contains thousands of animals. Here are a few adoption options:

• Adopt-An-Acre by The Nature Conservancy.
• Adopt-An-Acre Certificate by The Land Conservancy.
• Adopt-A-Beach by Marine Conservation Society.
• Adopt-A-Rainforest by The Rainforest Alliance.
• Adopt-A-River by The Oregon State Marine Board.
• Adopt-A-Shore by Ocean Watch Foundation.
• Rescue the Reef by The Nature Conservancy.

Snow Leopard photographs provided courtesy of The International Snow Leopard Trust. Please visit their website to learn more about Snow Leopard conservation.