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What a meaningful way to show you
care:
Give a truly significant gift and help to save
African wildlife in peril by adopting an individual
animal or family of animals for yourself, or to
celebrate the birthday, graduation, marriage, or
anniversary of your friends and family. Your recipient
will receive:
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A plush toy, representing the animal
you adopt for them
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A personalized certificate of
adoption, suitable for framing
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A fascinating
Factsheet featuring a picture of your adopted animal
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A one-year membership
in the African Wildlife Foundation, including a
subscription to African Wildlife News, our informative, photo-rich quarterly
newsletter.
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Kerubo
Kerubo is a young male African wild dog living in the Samburu region of northern Kenya. When Kerubo was born, his family had denned so close to a settlement where livestock were kept that there were some conflicts.
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A Pack of Wild Dogs
Long persecuted as a threat to livestock, the African wild dog is now listed as an endangered species, with only 3,000 to 5,000 surviving. While some populations have shown a modest recovery, others are still declining.
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Kakuda
Kakuda, now an impressive bull giraffe standing about 18 feet tall, had quite an adventure as a young calf on the open acacia savannas of Zambia.
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A Herd of Giraffes
Giraffes are the tallest of the world’s land-living animal species. They digest their food in multiple stomachs. Giraffes live in non-territorial herds. AWF is working to ensure the survival of this iconic species.
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Oltupai
Oltupai is an astonishingly fortunate elephant. One of Kenya’s famed Amboseli elephants, once presumed killed, he showed up at a national park many miles to the south.
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A Herd of African Elephants
Cruel ivory poaching and shrinking habitats require innovative solutions. Elephants live in matriarchal herds. Our programs offer real hope for the families of this appealing flagship species.
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Wanda
Wanda is an adult female warthog who had eight piglets when AWF staff first saw her. Tails all held high as they trotted across the acacia-studded grassland, Wanda and her piglets were headed for the safety of an underground burrow.
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A Sounder of Warthogs
Warthogs are widely distributed. A family, called a “sounder,” is a female and her young. Male warthogs are largely solitary. AWF protects the grasslands warthogs call home, to ensure this unique species continues to enrich Africa’s tapestry of life.
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Auntie Botlhe
Auntie Botlhe is a young lioness who manages to care for the only surviving members of her pride, two small cubs.
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A Pride of Lions
Recent surveys indicate an alarming drop in populations of the "King of Beasts." Lions live in patriarchal prides. We know why populations have plummeted and how to protect these families.
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Charles
Charles, a wise mountain gorilla, is devoted to the safety of his family. He became a leader at an unusually early age.
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A Group of Mountain Gorillas
Only about 700 still exist in the world. They live in families called "groups". We’re creating the strategies to save these families from extinction.
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Jabari
Jabari is a black rhinocerous bull, 20,known for his colossal size and gentleness toward humans. That he is alive today is a tribute to the rangers who took the orphan to a rhino sanctuary after poachers slaughtered his mother for her horn.
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A Pair of Black Rhinos
Black rhinos are notoriously solitary. Females bear one or two young at a time – that’s the extent of the rhino “family.” AWF works throughout Africa to support rhino sanctuaries to recover this unique species. Only 3,600 remain.
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Loli
Loli is a mature female leopard with two cubs. When AWF researchers first saw Loli, she was living in an area of northern Kenya called Samburu, where she was keeping her cubs hidden from other predators while she hunted for their food at night.
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A Leopardess and Her Cub
A leopard "family" consists of a leopardess and her cubs - although it may briefly include young males or older leopards. Habitat fragmentation means leopard numbers are declining. AWF has a plan to save these marvelous spotted cats!
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Leperit
Leperit lives in northern Kenya’s Samburu Nat’l Reserve. Wildlife scouts and local people can identify him by the notch in his right ear, a reminder of his pluck and the bravery of two Samburu boys who saved him from jackals when he was six months old.
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A Herd of Grevy's Zebras
Only about 3,500 Grevy’s zebras still exist in the wild, most of them in northern Kenya and a few pockets in southern Ethiopia
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