WWF-Australia - Elephant Adoption - Charity donations and appeals

Protect Asian elephants and their forest homes

Asian elephants are the continent's largest terrestrial mammals, with the appetite to match. They roam large areas for food, depositing seeds as they go, which keeps the forests and all its inhabitants healthy.

But their ivory tusks attract illegal poachers. And palm oil commercial timber plantations, logging and agriculture are destroying their habitat and putting them into contact with humans more often. When this happens, elephants may raid crops or trample homes, and people can retaliate by killing them. Now, less than 50,000 remain in the wild, with Borneo pygmy elephants the most threatened of all.

We must take action, or we'll lose them forever.

Adopting an elephant today can help protect them from extinction. Your monthly donations will symbolise your support for conservation and animal advocacy, and ensure elephants remain part of our environment forever.

And for each elephant you assist, you'll also help a host of other species too.

How your donation helps elephants

By adopting an elephant today, you'll help protect and manage the habitat they need to thrive. Plus, you'll be ensuring sustainable agriculture and forestry benefits all wildlife and where they live.

Ending the illegal wildlife trade

As well as confiscating snares and other means of trapping elephants.

Elephant in palm plantation; © Aaron Gekoski / WWF-US

Creates reforested elephant corridors

Allowing elephants to move freely and safely between natural forests.

Elephant tracking; ©Julia Thiemann / WWF-Germany

Reduces elephant-human conflict

By educating local communities, about elephant conservation and working alongside them.

Elephants in forest; ©WWF-Malaysia / Stephen Hogg

Protects elephant habitats

By working with plantation managers and owners to ensure sustainable, selective logging.

We can’t protect elephants without you

When you adopt an elephant, we want you to join them on their journey to a safer future.

Your special adoption gift pack includes a cuddly elephant plush toy, fact book, adoption certificate, Living Planet magazine and WWF sticker.

You'll also receive regular updates on how your kind donations are helping to conserve and protect the world's most vulnerable species.

Elephant in field; ©Christy Williams / WWF

Give a unique and memorable gift

An elephant 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.