A symbolic adoption does not send you an animal. It sends money to the organization keeping that animal alive in the wild, and sends you the story of what it paid for.
Three species, all of them threatened, and all of them needing more room than they have.
Fewer tigers live in the wild than in captivity in the United States alone.
A sea turtle takes decades to reach breeding age, and most never get there.
The giant panda is the recovery everyone cites. The red panda is the one nobody mentions.
Penguins are failing for two different reasons at once: fish taken from one end of their range, ice lost from the other.
Sharks have been in the ocean for 400 million years. The last fifty have been the hard part.
Leopards are the most adaptable big cat alive, which has not been enough.
Giraffe numbers have fallen by about a third in three decades, mostly unnoticed.
A sloth moves slowly because it cannot afford to move quickly. Roads and power lines do not allow for that.
Koalas were listed as Endangered along Australia’s east coast in 2022, after fire, disease and clearing arrived together.
Manatees and dugongs are the only fully aquatic mammals that eat plants, and their food is disappearing.
Three monkeys on three continents, each holding on in the last fragments of a forest that used to be continuous.
There are axolotls in tanks all over the world, and almost none left in the water they come from.
Named for the animal you chose, and printable or emailed.
What it is, where it lives, and what it is up against.
From the organization doing the work, not from us.
Adoptions are run by the conservation organizations themselves. Wildlife Connect lists them and takes no cut, so what you give is what they receive.
