Adopt a Giant Panda as a Gift
Adopt a Giant Panda as a gift for a loved one. Choose a welcome pack for an adult or a child. They'll also receive a cuddly toy and get regular updates on how their adoption is protecting Pandas and their habitats.
Our adoptions are the perfect gift for Panda lovers' birthdays, Christmas or any occasion! Your adoption will help protect giant pandas, and will help fund our vital work around the world. When you choose a panda gift adoption, you are supporting both your chosen animals as well as wider work to help bring our world back to life.
A Panda adoption gift includes
At checkout, you can choose to send a Standard or Under 12's welcome pack, depending on the recipient's age. Our standard Panda adoption includes an optional Panda toy, field notes on the animal, plus a keepsake photograph, information about our conservation work, a certificate and a postcard.
Our Under 12 adoption pack includes a colouring-in activity ‘wrap’, an optional Panda cuddly toy, a certificate, an interactive booklet, a postcard and information about what we do.
Threats to Giant Pandas
Loss of Food Supplies
In some places, grazing livestock, harvesting bamboo and collecting medicinal herbs is still a threat to pandas.
Habitat Fragmentation
Roads and railways are increasingly cutting through the forest, which isolates panda populations and prevents them from breeding.
Climate Change
Pandas that live in isolated mountains are especially vulnerable to warming - as they already have small ranges that will shrink and fragment further.
Tourism
Tourism in the region is increasing and this is putting additional pressure on giant panda habitat.
How Your Adoption Gift Helps Pandas
Your adoption and support will help us:
- create wildlife corridors to reconnect panda habitats
- restore habitats
- increase the area of habitat under legal protection
- support local communities manage forest resources sustainably
- fund our other essential work around the world
Pandas can swim and are excellent tree climbers.
Last-Minute Gift For a Special Occasion?
Free delivery
We offer free delivery but ask you to consider helping to cover postage with an optional £3 donation taken at checkout. This means more of your gift can go towards supporting your adoption animal and our wider work.
Your gift pack will be sent within 2-3 working days - but allow up to 5 working days for it to arrive.
Benefits of adopting as a gift
A WWF Panda adoption is the perfect hassle-free gift for friends or family with a passion for wildlife and making a difference.
Sustainable gift - make your impact go further
Gift packaging is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified and uses 100% recycled materials. No plastic is used in our gift packaging and it can be fully recycled.
Our adoption toys are made to the Blue Angel standard. This independent ecolabel certification means these soft toys have a lower environmental impact and higher protection for human health, for example protecting workers rights, compared to other soft toys. If you would like to make your support go further, in checkout you can choose to not send the toy in your recipient. Although we have worked hard to reduce the footprint of our toys, they still have an impact on the environment, so choosing not to receive a toy is the most environmentally-friendly option and your loved one will still receive a welcome pack and regular updates.
Convenient and pressure-free gifts
Order online and your gift recipient will be sent a welcome pack directly to their door. If you need a last-minute gift, you'll receive a personalised Panda gift certificate to give to your loved one while waiting for the pack to arrive.
You can also browse other species to adopt as a gift.
Impact
Our Panda adoptions are more than a cuddly toy, they’re helping protect wildlife and their habitats. In 1980 we became the first international conservation organisation invited to work in China – and we’ve been working with the Chinese government to help protect giant pandas ever since. This includes helping to designate and set up protected areas to keep more panda habitat intact. Your gift will support our work with local communities to help them use their natural resources more sustainably, and encourage alternative livelihoods such as bee-keeping – things that don’t negatively impact on the panda’s habitat.
Panda adoption gift FAQs
Panda adoptions help us restore panda habitats, increase the area of habitat under legal protection and support local communities to manage forest resources sustainably. Find out more about how your adoption gift will help Pandas.
Panda adoptions are symbolic for donating and supporting our conservation work with Pandas. By adopting a Panda, you will be supporting a whole group Pandas, rather than one individual.
Donations from our adoptions go both directly to support Pandas, as well as to fund our wider work to protect nature and our planet.
Your gift recipient will receive an optional toy and welcome pack. Learn more about what an adoption includes.
If the welcome pack won't arrive in time for a special event such as a birthday, you can print or email a personalised gift certificate online to give while you’re waiting for the pack to arrive.
Animal adoptions like yours give a huge boost to our work. They not only help fund projects to work with local communities to monitor jaguar movements and help protect their habitat but also fund our other vital work around the world.
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