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Right now, you can give your friends and family truly meaningful holiday gifts from NRDC's brand-new Gifts from the Wild collection.

Each Gift from the Wild offers the people in your life the rewarding experience of saving wildlife, wildlands and the planet's future for as little as a $10 to $20 tax-deductible contribution per gift.

And here's some good news: With free e-delivery, you’ll be guaranteed same-day delivery for any last-minute gifts.

Highlights from the collection include:

• Plant a $10 Tree and Revive a Rainforest: Each sapling you give in the name of a friend or family member will be planted in our second NRDC Member Rainforest in Costa Rica, where it will provide a safe haven for tropical wildlife and fight global warming.
• Rescue the Polar Bear: Give the rewarding experience of helping to rescue the polar bear from extinction. Your gift will help NRDC fight in court and around the world to win the kind of strong national and international protections that polar bears so urgently need in order to survive.
• Adopt Yellowstone's Wolves: Give Greater Yellowstone's imperiled wolves a fighting chance at recovery. Your gift will enable NRDC to rush to their defense by filing suit in court and mobilizing the public against wolf hunting.
• Protect Newborn Whales: Help save the world's last untouched gray whale nursery in Mexico's Laguna San Ignacio. Your gift will help NRDC and our Mexican partners put this sensitive habitat off limits to industry forever and keep our planet's greatest whale nursery wild and free.

Keep in mind that when you give a Gift from the Wild, you'll be giving a gift to the wild as well. By skipping a shopping trip to the mall, you'll be cutting down on air pollutants and saving gasoline. And with e-delivery, there's no need for wrapping paper, which means you'll also save trees and reduce waste.

last revised 11/16/2011