When you adopt a wild animal do you really adopt one or is it just fake??

Question

https://secure.defenders.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=wildadopt_snowyowl

Answer 1

It depends on where you adopt from. Some places you are adopting a animal, and the money goes to help pay for the animal's food and care. Other places your money goes to protecting the species.

https://secure.defenders.org/site/SPageS...

your adoption helps save snowy owls by:

* Supporting our efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other important habitat for snowy owls.

* Ensuring protection of snowy owls and other birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.  

http://www.raptoreducationgroup.org/Adop...

Wildlife needs your help! Injured animals do not have health insurance. The care it takes to rehabilitate these animals can become very expensive. Veterinary bills, pharmacy costs, correct food, proper houseing and care can add up to many hundreds to thousands of dollars for a single bird. By participating in REGI's Adopt A Bird program, you can contribute financially to the annual support of our avian patients.

http://www.eaglevalleyraptorcenter.org/a...

Your financial support helps provide the care these birds need, as well as allowing them to travel to classrooms as ambassadors for environmental education.

Large Owls, $50 --- "Tundra" (Snowy Owl)

Answer 2

You adopt an animal a symbolic adoption (rather than adopting an individual animal you are symbolicly adopting the entire species).

http://worldanimalfoundation.homestead.c...

Answer 3

if you're referring to the commercials by the World Wildlife Fund where it's asking you to "Adopt a Tiger" or something, you don't actually adopt it. it's like sponsoring a child. you just send them money so they can keep one healthy, give it healthy food and water, give it proper medication if its been mistreated, and provide it with a home. haha don't worry, they won't actually send you an animal:)

hope that helps!

Answer 4

It's just a fund raising gimmick.  You get a nice piece of paper, not an animal.

By the way, those people are lying sacks of donkey dung.  The area in the Arctic where drilling is proposed is less than ONE PERCENT of the total refuge.  Less than one per cent!  They could PAVE the whole area and it wouldn't make any difference to wildlife!

Almost nothing lives there anyway!

Answer 5

i agree with Jordan W, i recently adopted an orca with WWF, and i got the stuffed animal, certificate and the picture, so yeah they aren't like a scam, but they wont send a real Snowy Owl to your doorstep! i hope you choose to adopt!

Answer 6

You don't actually GET the animal. You're actually just SPONSORING it. You're helping to pay for its care and shelter if it's being rehabilitated -- or for it's feeding, care and shelter if its in a zoo.

You can do the same thing through your local zoo -- you can adopt any animal they have there -- but it's not actually YOURS.

Answer 7

Normally by adopt, they mean an endangered animal who is in trouble and when you adopt it every month or so, you have to donate some money to help it. And some of the orangizations send you a stuffed animal version of it!