With original holiday presents so hard to find, put meaning back into the holiday season by skipping the stores and choosing a gift that makes the world a better place instead. Choose from one of the five IFAW campaigns below to make a gift in someone's name to help animals in need.
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Save a Seal
  Many people mistakenly think Canada stopped hunting baby seals decades ago. But as many seals are slaughtered today during the commercial seal hunt as during the 1950s and 60s when overhunting significantly pushed harp seals down the road towards extinction.
Seal pups remain helpless and vulnerable on the ice for several weeks after their mothers leave them. It is during this same time when seals only two weeks to three months old are also mercilessly killed for their pelts. Your gift to save a seal will help expose the cruelty of the hunt and help show the Canadian Parliament that the rest of the world will no longer allow it to continue.
 Save a seal with your gift
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Help a Bear Cub
 During the winter months in Russia, wealthy hunters pay more than US$2,000 each to rouse bears from hibernation and kill them without knowing whether they are male or female. After the adult bear is killed, many cubs are abandoned and left to die. Some are given to local villagers to be kept as pets or kept in zoos or circuses. There is also a demand for bear meat in some restaurants.
IFAW is helping to rehabilitate Russian bear cubs orphaned by hunters so they can be released back into protected forests. We are also campaigning for a ban on killing hibernating bears in Russia, which leaves hundreds of cubs to die. Your gift will help nurse one of these orphaned bear cubs back to new life.
Save an orphan bear cub with your gift
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Protect Elephants
 Ivory poachers are killing African and Asian elephants at an alarming rate ... and crucial elephant habitat is disappearing every day. Unfortunately, poachers and illegal ivory traders often have the upper hand. Under-equipped and under-staffed African wildlife law enforcement agencies are easily outmaneuvered in their attempts to fight poaching by sophisticated crime syndicates operating freely across national borders.
Even limited ivory sales lead to the widespread slaughter of elephants. Anti-poaching rangers in many regions lack government support and funding for personnel and equipment. Rangers risk their lives everyday to save the elephants, with hundreds killed each year. Your gift goes to providing these brave rangers with the equipment and skills they need to win the fight against poachers.
Save an elephant with your gift
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Send Urgent Pet Care
 IFAW's Community-Linked Animal Welfare program brings pet care to those who need it most: reducing pet populations through sterilization and vaccinating the pets of some of world's poorest people. CLAW also has an excellent education outreach component that teaches responsible pet care to people and children in the areas where it works.
CLAW projects work at the heart of animal welfare problems in local communities such as the shantytowns of South Africa, resulting in grateful owners, happier dogs and fewer unwanted pets. The projects have a direct positive impact on the community as a whole, providing veterinary services in a caring and compassionate fashion to those pets who might never otherwise receive help. Your gift helps deliver the much needed supplies vets need to bring new hope to these disadvantaged communities.
Save a dog or a cat with your gift
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Rescue Animals
 When disaster strikes, IFAW's Emergency Relief team rushes to save animals from suffering and abandonment.
After Hurricane Katrina and Rita hit the US Gulf Coast in the late summer of 2005, IFAW's ER team was there. IFAW conducted door-to-door search and animal rescue operations in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina where evacuees were forced to leave their pets behind, helping to rescue and relocate thousands of animals as well as reunite hundreds with their missing pets.
For those who lose everything in a disaster, their pets are all they have left to give them comfort and strength. Your gift to Emergency Relief helps save stranded marine mammals, clean endangered birds after oil spills, and rescue orphaned, injured, or mistreated animals.
Save an animal in crisis with your gift
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