This year, give your friends and family the rewarding experience of playing a personal role in saving wildlife, wildlands ... and the planet's future.

These unique gifts are meaningful, affordable -- and most can be delivered by postal or on the same day by e-card.

And with e-delivery, you'll be giving a gift to the wild as well. Without the need for wrapping paper, you'll save trees and reduce waste. And by skipping a trip to the mall, you'll spare the air of pollutants and save gasoline.

Give the season's most affordable green gift -- a $10 rainforest tree. Each tree sapling you give in the name of a friend or family member will be planted in NRDC's newly rejuvenated rainforest in Costa Rica -- where it will grow up to provide a safe haven for tropical wildlife and fight global warming.

Give a rainforest tree

Give Yellowstone's wolves a fighting chance -- and be part of our nation's most heralded wildlife recovery story. Now that these wolves have been kicked off the endangered species list and are the target of public hunts -- a new chapter in NRDC's long-term fight for wolf survival begins.

Safeguard wolves and their pups

Give the ultimate experience of being a vital link in the international lifeline of support that NRDC is forging to save the polar bear from extinction. Your gift will help NRDC fight for and win the kind of strong protections that polar bears so urgently need and deserve.

Give a lifeline to save polar bears

Give the gift of being part of one of the most extraordinary environmental victories on Earth! In 2000, NRDC Members saved the world's greatest whale nursery in Mexico's Laguna San Ignacio from industrialization. But now this irreplaceable sanctuary is threatened in new ways. Your gift can help protect newborn gray whales and their mothers.

Give newborn whales a safe start at life

Give your favorite environmentalists this breakthrough new book by NRDC President Frances Beinecke. With a foreword by Robert Redford, this book outlines pragmatic steps our country can take to rise to the challenge of global climate change -- and move toward a clean energy future that will put the American economy back on its feet.

Recommended by Robert Redford