Adopt a Turtle
(WWF Adopt An Animal)
Species : Hawksbill Turtle
About the Hawksbill Turtle : The hawksbill turtles lives in the waters around Fiji and nest on the island of Yadua Taba. This uninhabited island offers the perfect feeding grounds for hawksbill turtles with it's coral reefs and seagrass meadows.
Five female hawksbill's return here every year to nest, allowing the WWF to follow their challenges and chart their progress.
From just £3.00 a month you can adopt a Hawksbill turtle, helping WWF to safeguard the future of these fascinating creatures, and help safeguard their habitat and future.
About Hawksbill Turtles
Marine turtles have outlived almost all prehistoric animals, having survived in the ocean for over 100 million years. Though hawksbill turtles live in water and can hold their breath for several hours they still need to surface to breathe as they have lungs, just like us. Surprisingly, female turtles return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs, even if it is thousands of miles away.
The Recipient of the Charity Gift Gets
- cuddly toy and certificate
- a print of your animal
- facts about the species
- a greetings card
- tips on a 'greener' lifestyle and WWF screensavers and quarterly updates
- Last minute gift? - No problem! Worried the gift might not arrive on time? There's a a certificate to print or email to give on the day!
About WWF Adoptions
The WWF Adoption programme enables you to adopt a wild animal for yourself or a friend for a small regular monthly donation. This will help the WWF to safeguard the future of these species and is an excellent way to show your support to the worlds wildlife and help to fund conservation for a small monthly fee.
About the WWF
The WWF is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organisation :
- a truly global network, working in more than 90 countries;
- a challenging, constructive, science-based organisation that addresses issues from the survival of species and habitats to climate change, sustainable business and environmental education;
- a charity dependent upon its five million supporters worldwide - some 90 per cent of their income derives from voluntary sources such as people and the business community.
The mission of WWF is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by :
- conserving the world's biological diversity,
- ensuring that the use of renewable resources is sustainable,
- and reducing pollution and wasteful consumption.
