Adopt a Turtle as a Gift

Adopt a turtle as a gift for a loved one, choose between a welcome pack for an adult or a child. They'll get an exclusive WWF cuddly toy, regular stories about turtles and other goodies, too!

Our adoptions are the perfect gift for turtle lovers' birthdays, Christmas or any occasion! When you choose a turtle gift adoption, you are supporting both tigers and WWF's wider work to help bring our world back to life.

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A turtle swimming in shallow sunlit waters

A turtle adoption gift includes

Our standard turtle gift pack includes an exclusive tiger cuddly toy, field notes on the animal, a keepsake photograph, information about our conservation work, a certificate and a postcard.

Our under 12 adoption pack includes a colouring-in activity, an exclusive turtle cuddly toy, a certificate, an interactive booklet, a postcard and information about the work we do. At checkout, you can choose between a Standard or Under 12's welcome pack, depending on who you're buying for. 

Turtle Cuddly Toy

A cuddly turtle soft toy is included in your adoption gift. Toy may vary from image shown.

Welcome Pack

Packed with plenty of details about the difference our amazing adopters make.

Regular Updates

We'll keep your gift recipient updated on how their gift is supporting our vital work.

Certificate

Create a personalised adoption certificate when you gift a turtle adoption.


Threats to turtles

Fishing
Practices
Sea turtles come to the surface to breathe but often get caught in fishing gear and drown
Habitat
Destruction
Nesting beaches where sea turtles lay eggs are being destroyed by building on coastlines
Hunting
and poaching
Sea turtles are poached for food, medicine, fashion and crafts, and demand is increasing
Climate
Change
Increased storms, sea levels and temperatures are wrecking marine ecosystems

Adopt a turtle to help protect their future

A turtle adoption helps us:

  • work with communities that manage protected marine areas to manage safe spaces for turtles to nest 
  • reduce unsustainable and dangerous fishing practices to reduce the threat of turtles being tangled in nets
  • carry out nesting surveys to improve data on marine turtles in places like Fiji

The survival of turtles depends on our protection. Please help us to bring our world back to life, before it's too late.

Close up of Hawksbill turtle swimming underwater

Last-Minute Gift For a Special Occasion?

Letter thanking supporter for adopting a turtle with WWF
Get a last-minute turtle Christmas or birthday gift! You can print or email a personalised gift certificate online to give on the day.

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 turtle 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 tiger 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 turtle adoptions are more than a cuddly toy, they’re helping protect wildlife and their habitats. Your gift will support our work with communities that manage protected marine areas to create safe spaces for turtles to nest, as well as projects to improve dangerous fishing practices that can harm turtles. 


Turtle adoption gift FAQs

Turtle adoptions help support our work with communities that manage protected marine areas to create safe spaces for turtles to nest, as well as projects to improve dangerous fishing practices that can harm turtles.

Turtle adoptions are symbolic for donating and supporting our conservation work with turtles. By adopting a turtle, you will be supporting a whole group of turtles, rather than one individual. 

Donations from our adoptions go both directly to support turtles, 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.

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. Your gift will not only help us protect turtles by improving dangerous and unsustainable fishing practices, but it will also go toward our wider work in bringing our world back to life.