Found an animal that needs help?
Find the right next step
Choose what you can see to find practical guidance and contact options. WARN does not operate an emergency dispatch service. If a person is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
Keep a safe distance and contact a professional. Contact options updated for Choose location / elsewhere.
Keep a safe distance and contact a professional
- Observe from a safe place and keep children and pets away. Do not approach large wildlife, bats, snakes, birds of prey, or sick or dead birds.
- Contact a wildlife rehabilitator, local wildlife authority or vet promptly. Describe visible injuries, breathing difficulty, entanglement or a collision without trying to diagnose the animal.
- Ask for species-specific instructions before handling, moving or feeding it. Do not enter a road, fire zone, railway or water to attempt a rescue.
Guidance: RSPCA: injured wildlife advice. Reviewed 8 September 2026.
Contact options
These independent services have their own areas, hours and capacity. For an injured dog or cat, call a local veterinary practice first. If you cannot reach a responder, try the local wildlife authority or another vet; do not wait for a reply from WARN.
What to tell a responder
Share the exact location or map pin, when you found the animal, what you can see and how to contact you. Take a photo only from a safe distance. Explain any nearby traffic, fire, water, people or pets so the responder can plan an appropriate response.
Guide 1
What Sanctuary Donations Usually Fund
Searching "donate to animal sanctuary" often means supporting a named facility — food, keeper wages, veterinary care, enclosure maintenance and rehabilitation for rescued animals. Many excellent sanctuaries operate locally or abroad with transparent daily running costs.
Guide 2
How WARN Differs from a Sanctuary
WARN is a grant-making global not-for-profit, not a sanctuary operator. It channels international donations to vetted partner sanctuaries, rehabilitation centres and field teams abroad — without building parallel WARN-branded facilities. Your gift funds partner-led delivery with reporting accountability.
Guide 3
Partner Sanctuaries WARN Grants Support
WARN is developing grant support. Check the relevant appeal and /about/where-your-money-goes/#grant-register for recipient selection, agreements and published payments.
Guide 4
Choosing Sanctuary Versus Programme Grants
If you want to support one named sanctuary you can visit, donate to that sanctuary directly. The country guides describe welfare issues and places; they do not establish funded WARN operations. Both are valid depending on your giving goal.
Guide 5
Monthly Versus One-Off Sanctuary-Adjacent Giving
Sanctuary running costs are year-round — monthly giving at monthly giving or symbolic adoption at symbolic adoption from £5/month helps partners budget for keeper care, milk formula and veterinary supplies. One-off gifts suit urgent orphan intakes or seizure triage.
Guide 6
Honest Registration Answers
Legal identity: registration status. WARN sanctuary-adjacent giving is not Gift Aid eligible. The case for giving is transparent partner-led rehabilitation and release — not tax relief.
Guide 7
Wildlife Versus Companion Animal Sanctuaries
Street dog CNVR at Karachi street-dog appeal addresses population scale rather than sanctuary pen care. Wildlife sanctuaries handle orphans, snare injuries and trafficking survivors — route through orangutan appeal, elephant appeal or pangolin appeal.
Guide 8
Verifying Sanctuary and Grant Recipients
WARN targets at least 80% programme funding and publishes registration at registration status. Partners are established in-country organisations with field expertise — WARN does not publish unverified rescue counts before partner reporting.