Symbolic Adoption · Critically Endangered
Adopt an Orangutan
All three orangutan species are Critically Endangered. Palm oil, mining, and the illegal pet trade are erasing them. Your symbolic adoption supports eligible welfare and conservation work under WARN’s published funding policy.
Sepilok, Malaysia · 14 May 2015. Photo: Charles J. Sharp / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; display cropped. Species illustration.
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In brief
Adopt an Orangutan symbolically through a donation from £5 a month. A symbolic adoption expresses your support for orangutan welfare and conservation. Read the funding purpose and current recipient status; this gift is separate from the designated Kalimantan fire fund. The gift does not assign a named animal or guarantee a particular treatment.
Looking to help orangutans affected by fires?
Kalimantan wildlife fire appeal
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How to help orangutans
Compare wider donations, symbolic adoption and practical ways to help without giving money.
Orangutans and the 2026 Kalimantan fires
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Learn together: orangutans and forests
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3
Orangutan species
Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli
2
Islands in their wild range
Borneo and Sumatra
£5
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Digital
Adoption certificate
A symbolic acknowledgement
Species and range: Orangutan Foundation. Read our sourced orangutan guide for more about their lives and threats.
What Responsible Support Can Help Address
These are examples of needs conservation organisations address. WARN’s grants depend on assessed needs, agreed budgets and available funds; published payments belong in the grant register.
Infant Care
Specialist assessment, suitable nutrition and veterinary attention form part of caring for an orphan. Needs and care plans depend on the individual animal.
Forest School
Juveniles must re-learn skills their mothers would have taught them: climbing, foraging, nest-building. Forest school sessions take years and are essential for any chance of release.
Post-Release Monitoring
After soft-release into protected forest, rangers monitor individuals for months to ensure they are foraging, building nests, and avoiding human settlements.
What You'll Receive
- Personalised digital adoption certificate (PDF, gift-ready)
- Links to the sourced orangutan wildlife guide
- Public funding and grant updates when available
- Gift receipt for your records
- Option to dedicate your adoption as a gift with recipient's name on the certificate
Adoption
Certificate
Digital · Gift-ready PDF
Choose Your Adoption Gift
Pick a tier, choose monthly or one-off, and optionally dedicate it as a gift. Read the funding policy and check your selected amount and frequency before checkout.
Cancel future monthly gifts at any time · Secure Stripe checkout.
Where your adoption gift goes
WARN's target is for at least 80% of unrestricted donations to support eligible animal-welfare programmes. This is a planning target, not an achieved result. Named appeals follow their own published fund terms.
- Programme funding target
- At least 80% of unrestricted donations to frontline programme delivery — grants to partner shelters, sanctuary capacity, veterinary care and rescue.
- What the rest covers
- Essential fundraising, communications, governance and operations. The funding policy distinguishes planning targets from actual reported spending.
- Who delivers the work
- Eligible organisations assessed before a grant is approved. WARN is developing grant-making and does not operate its own rescue centres. Published records identify actual recipients and payments. How partners are selected.
- Legal status
- World Animal Rescue Network CIC is a Community Interest Company — not a registered charity, and not Gift Aid eligible. Registration status.
Suggested amounts are contribution choices, not verified treatment costs or guarantees of an individual rescue outcome. Read the selected appeal’s purpose and funding terms.
Full breakdown: where your money goes →