This year, give a gift that is both meaningful and personal. Sponsor a child, adopt an animal, or plant a tree.

Sponsor a Child
Adopt a Marine Mammal
Plant a Tree
Adopt a Farm Animal
Adopt a Wolf
Adopt a Gorilla
Adopt a Snowy Owl
Adopt a Whale
Adopt a Chimpanzee
Donate Bed Nets

Children in the U.S. and all around the world need your help. Whether they are suffering from malnutrition, lack of education, inadequate shelter, or war, they all deserve a chance for a better future. Childreach PLAN International is a child-centered organization that works at the grassroots level with children, their families and their communities. For a monthly gift of $24, you can sponsor a child in a developing country.

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Marine mammals face a number of different threats, including hunting, pollution, global warming, fishing, habitat loss, poaching, oil spills, diseases, and boat injuries - all of which are potential causes for extinction. Animals such as sea otters, seals, manatees, whales, dolphins need our help. Marine Mammal Center, a unique nonprofit rescue and rehabilitation hospital for injured, sick, and orphaned marine mammals, operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, rescuing more marine mammals than any other institution in the world. Adopt a seal, sea lion, or sea otter, and help nurse them back to health so they can return to the wild. With your donation you will receive a certificate and photo of your adoptee.

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Global warming is the looming environmental threat that we need to be taken seriously. Trees offset carbon dioxide emissions and reduce CO2 in our atmosphere. Trees for Life empowers people by demonstrating that in helping each other, we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives. They do this by helping people plant fruit trees in developing countries. Each tree protects the environment and provides a low-cost, self-renewing source of food for a large number of people.

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Farm animals raised for food are the most exploited and abused group of animals, as 10 billion are raised and slaughtered each year in the U.S. for human consumption. Considered simply commodities by the industry, farm animals endure abuse, confinement, and cruelty. You can help provide sanctuary to rescued farm animals. Farm Sanctuary has established America's premier farm animal shelters and waged effective campaigns to stop farm animal cruelty. Join their Farm Animal Sponsorship program and help them provide sanctuary to a cow, pig, goat, sheep, chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or rabbit. Sponsorship costs vary according to the animal you choose.

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By the mid-1960s wolves were nearly exterminated from the lower 48 states. Very few survived the poisons, guns, and traps in the West, but 350-700 wolves remained in the lake-strewn forests of Minnesota. Many people have worked hard to pull the wolf back from the threat of extinction, and biologists estimate that as of 2,000 more than 2,900 wolves inhabit a few states. Wolves still need protection, however. Give a gift that helps preserve their habitat as well as their lives. International Wolf Center supports the survival of the wolf around the world by teaching about its life, its association with other species and its dynamic relationships to humans. When you adopt by making a donation, you receive: an adoption certificate with photo of your pup, a biography of your pup and information about the Center's pack, a National Geographic White Wolf Video, a Wolf Pup Book, stickers, a wolf puzzle, and a pencil with paw prints.

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Snowy owls are under threat from those who would drill in their sanctuaries, especially the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the home to many snowy owls, to destructive oil and gas drilling. Defenders of Wildlife, dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities, needs your help protecting snowy owls. With your gift of $25 or more, you will receive a toy snowy owl, an adoption certificate, and a year of Defenders of Wildlife's magazine. They also have an entire adoption program for other animals such as wolves, bears, and dolphins.

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Whale adoptions are perfect gifts for anyone who cares about wildlife and the environment. Adopting a whale or giving a Whale Adoption as a gift helps International Wildlife Coalition stay on the job - moving stranded whales and dolphins back into the water, studying whales at sea, giving emergency care to marine mammals, working to protect our ocean environment, assisting in disentanglements and discouraging whale harassment. The Whale Adoption Project enables you to choose an adoptee from the West Coast or the East Coast. Choose a whale to adopt and look forward to receiving for yourself or your gift recipient your Whale Adoption Kit. You'll even be able to track your whale with regular updates.

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Despite the high-profile work of such primatologists as Jane Goodall, chimpanzees' lives are still threatened everyday -- they are used for medical research, killed for bushmeat, and sold as pets, entertainment, and zoo exhibits. In Defense of Animals - Africa's Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in a forest in Cameroon provides sanctuary to chimpanzees who have been rescued from the saddest of circumstances. Their lives are renewed and protected through the work of IDA-Africa. For $15 a month, "foster parents" receive a photograph and biography of your chimpanzee as well as a certificate of "guardianship."

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Malaria No More's mission is simple: to end deaths due to malaria. The world has known how to beat this disease for more than a century, yet it remains the number one killer of children under five in sub-Saharan Africa, claiming more than 1 million lives a year. Malaria No More engages individuals, organizations, and corporations in the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in need.Acknowledge the special people in your life by donating bed nets on their behalf, and help to protect vulnerable children and mothers from the deadly threat of malaria.

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