How to Adopt a Gorilla

Turn your love of animals into action by putting your money where your heart is and adopting a gorilla. Gorillas are beautiful, wild animals that have seen their habitat gradually destroyed over the years due to our own consumer demand for wood products harvested in the rainforest can you do? First, stop buying furniture made of wood harvested in the rainforest and secondly-adopt a gorilla through an organization. You get a gift for yourself and give a gift to them at the same time.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Phone
• Internet connection
• Credit card

How to Adopt a Gorilla

1. Adopt a gorilla through the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Call 800-851-0203 and tell them you'd like to adopt a gorilla through their program or go online to www.gorillafund.org and click on the "adopt a gorilla" tab. Your adoption brings them hope for survival and it brings you a four-color adoption certificate with a full-color image from the groups Dian Fossey studied and that DFGFI continues to study and protect. It also give you an adoption profile with detailed information written by the organization's field scientists, a year's subscription to the DFGFI newsletter with facts on gorillas and a colorful window cling that can be displayed to show your support of gorillas.

2. Go to a non-profit organization to handle your gorilla adoption. One such organization will take at least 50 percent of your money and use it directly to sponsor programs that support the protection of gorillas. Your adoption will give you gifts too...a photograph, an adoption certificate that you can display anywhere, four gorilla postcards, information sheet, book or soft gorilla toy! Go to http://www.adoptwildlife.org/adopt_gorilla.htm and click on the adoption links to adopt online.

3. Peruse your adoption opens through www.justgive.org. This site will open up your options and connect you with a variety of different animal organizations that will allow you to adopt a gorilla. Click on the left for the tab that says "browse by category " and choose "animals" followed by the tab that says "save endangered animals" and then choose your organization. Follow their individual links to adopt a gorilla.

4. Ensure that gorillas continue to have a habitat to live in with a gorilla adoption through the American Wildlife Foundation. When you adopt, the monies go to pay for increased ranger-based monitoring, 24/7 anti-poaching patrols, and increased community development programs. Visit them online at http://www.awf.org/content/action/detail/3602 and click on the "adopt a gorilla" link.If you prefer to adopt via phone, call them at 800-901-2779 .

Tips & Warnings

• Research the organization beforehand and make sure that when you adopt, the monies are going directly into the animals and programs you want to support. In addition to your financial contribution through adoption, consider donating used items to the animals themselves or the organizations that help them.
• Don't buy furniture or any wood/paper products from areas where gorillas are. The habitat destruction will continue unless you choose to change your purchasing habits.

[MacDonald]

on 5/19/2008 Five stars, I never knew one could actually do this! I just wrote How to Train a Gorilla, had fun with that. :) (Operant conditioning of course.)