ADOPT AN ORANGUTAN
These gentle apes are clinging to survival and desperately need your help.
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANIMAL LOVERS 🎁
Supercharge your impact by selecting an ongoing adoption from as little as $15 per month. With an ongoing adoption you’ll receive regular email updates so you can see the difference your generous support is making.
Monthly donations make it easier to plan for the long-term, helping to keep administration costs down and providing a huge boost to vital conservation work. You’ll always be in control of your giving and can easily contact us should your circumstances change.
These intelligent tree dwellers are clinging to survival
The forests of Borneo were once teeming with orangutans. They are the ultimate forest gardeners, spreading seeds to help maintain the forest ecosystem.
But these magnificent primates are now under threat of extinction.
In the last 40 years, habitat destruction has destroyed 35% of their forest homes, thanks to demand for paper, timber and palm oil products. Humans are also a danger, poaching these great apes for the pet trade, food, or retaliation when they migrate to agricultural areas and destroy crops.
You can help protect them from extinction by symbolically adopting an orangutan today. Your monthly donations will symbolise your support for conservation and animal advocacy, and ensure orangutans remain part of the environment forever.
And for each orangutan you assist, you'll also help a host of other wildlife.
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANIMAL LOVERS 🎁
Supercharge your impact by selecting an ongoing adoption from as little as $15 per month. With an ongoing adoption you’ll receive regular email updates so you can see the difference your generous support is making.
Monthly donations make it easier to plan for the long-term, helping to keep administration costs down and providing a huge boost to vital conservation work. You’ll always be in control of your giving and can easily contact us should your circumstances change.
These intelligent tree dwellers are clinging to survival
The forests of Borneo were once teeming with orangutans. They are the ultimate forest gardeners, spreading seeds to help maintain the forest ecosystem.
But these magnificent primates are now under threat of extinction.
In the last 40 years, habitat destruction has destroyed 35% of their forest homes, thanks to demand for paper, timber and palm oil products. Humans are also a danger, poaching these great apes for the pet trade, food, or retaliation when they migrate to agricultural areas and destroy crops.
You can help protect them from extinction by symbolically adopting an orangutan today. Your monthly donations will symbolise your support for conservation and animal advocacy, and ensure orangutans remain part of the environment forever.
And for each orangutan you assist, you'll also help a host of other wildlife.
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How your donation can help orangutans
By adopting an orangutan today, you can change the fate of these mighty apes by protecting and restoring the trees they need for food and shelter to survive in the wild.
Protecting and restoring orangutan habitat
Your support can help ensure orangutan habitats in Borneo are healthy, protected and connected. WWF is working with local government, communities and the private sector to support community-led restoration projects and improve practices in local forestry areas.
Providing necessary biodiversity monitoring training
Your support is helping local forest management units build their capacity for regular biodiversity monitoring – empowering them to better monitor and collect data on the condition of wildlife, like the orangutan, in their managed areas.
Promoting sustainable peatland management
Peatlands, an extremely carbon-rich wetland, make up a significant part of orangutan habitat in Borneo. However, they are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations. Your support can help ensure sustainable peatland management is implemented through best practice methods.
Preventing forests fires in Borneo
By promoting fire preventative programs alongside the government, local communities and fisherfolk.
We can't protect orangutans without you
When you symbolically adopt an orangutan, we want you to join them on their journey to a safer future. Your special adoption gift pack includes an adoption certificate, factbook, Living Planet magazine, WWF sticker and an optional cuddly orangutan plush toy. If you sign up to an ongoing adoption, you'll also receive regular updates on how your kind donations are helping to conserve and protect the world's most vulnerable wildlife.
Give a unique and memorable gift
An orangutan adoption is the perfect gift for any animal lover. It's also a great way to inspire friends, family and loved ones to care for nature as much as you do.
We can send this gift to you or directly to your gift recipient. For last-minute gifts, you can print a personalised adoption certificate or email it directly to your gift recipient.