World Wildlife Fund's Gift Catalog - 2008-2009 - (Page 27) Adopt an Anaconda The anaconda is the heaviest snake on Earth and at up to 29 feet, may also be the longest. A constrictor, it wraps itself around prey, such as deer, tapirs and even other reptiles. The anaconda plays a crucial role in the Amazon food chain, so protecting its habitat is a WWF priority. $100 $50 $25 CTAS S O U T H A M E R I C A FREE with $50 donation or more! Adopt a Spectacled Bear VU N Named for their distinctive markings, spectacled bears are the only surviving bears native to South America. They live high in the Andean Slopes and are unusually adept tree climbers. Young spectacled bears display the urge to climb almost from birth. $100 $50 $25 CTSB FREE with $50 donation or more! Adopt a Toucan This social bird is a poor flyer that moves primarily by hopping around the trees in search of fruit. Female toucans lay their eggs in hollow tree cavities. Toucans are important to the rainforest as they help disperse seeds from the fruits and berries they eat. $100 $50 $25 CTTC EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS Brazil Nuts: Help provide Bolivian and Brazilian families with a sustainable forest-based income Providing Bolivian and Brazilian families with a sustainable income could save thousands of acres of rain forest from destruction. Your gift will give a community the resources it needs to thrive in the rain forest without resorting to deforestation; training community members in sustainably harvesting Brazil nuts; helping them achieve fair trade and organic certification and strengthening regional cooperatives to get their forest products to market. Donation amount $20,000 Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) Please call WWF’s exclusive Extraordinary Gifts line at 1-888-993-1100 for more details about these opportunities. Your donation will be used in general support of WWF’s conservation efforts around the world. 27 http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_SKU.cfm?cqs=CTAS&sc=AWY0900WCN11 http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_SKU.cfm?cqs=CTSB&sc=AWY0900WCN11 http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_SKU.cfm?cqs=CTSB&sc=AWY0900WCN11 http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_SKU.cfm?cqs=CTTC&sc=AWY0900WCN11
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