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
Why Helping Animals Abroad Matters
Street dogs face culling where CNVR is absent. Pangolins are the most trafficked mammals on Earth. Orangutan orphans need years of forest-school rehabilitation. Working donkeys suffer preventable lameness. These problems need in-country expertise — WARN channels international donations to partners who deliver field work.
Guide 2
How WARN Helps Animals Abroad
WARN is a grant-making UK CIC global not-for-profit. It does not operate WARN-branded facilities abroad. Established local shelters, sanctuaries and veterinary teams receive grants with transparent reporting — reaching frontline need without duplicating infrastructure.
Guide 3
Animal-welfare issues covered by the guides
Street dog CNVR in Pakistan, the Philippines, India and Nepal. Community cats and meat-trade rescue in Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. Elephants and tigers in Indonesia and Malaysia. Gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda. Working equines in Pakistan and Kenya. Browse where we work for geography.
Guide 4
How to Start Helping from Home
Donate at donate, choose a species appeal at appeals, or set up monthly giving at monthly giving. Symbolic adoption at symbolic adoption from £5/month provides species-framed recurring support. Every gift is receipted by email.
Guide 5
Volunteering Versus Donating Abroad
WARN does not organise volunteer tourism — ethical partner programmes minimise unnecessary human contact with wildlife in rehabilitation. Financial grants are the highest-impact way most international supporters help. Contact local organisations directly if you seek hands-on volunteering abroad.
Guide 6
Gift Aid and Tax Honesty
Legal identity: registration status. US donors: WARN is not a 501(c)(3). The case for helping animals abroad is transparent field delivery — not tax relief.
Guide 7
Monthly Versus One-Off International Help
CNVR and rehabilitation need multi-year income. Monthly at monthly giving helps partners schedule repeat vaccination rounds and orphan care. One-off gifts suit urgent seizures and culling crises.
Guide 8
Combining Local and International Help
Many supporters help animals locally through shelters and help abroad through WARN monthly. Both routes are valid — see donate to animal shelter for an honest framework.
Guide 9
Programme Routing for International Giving
Street dogs: Karachi street-dog appeal. Meat trade: dog and cat meat trade appeal. Wildlife: appeals. Country pages: where we work. UK route: donate animal charity abroad.