UK WILDLIFE

See also WILDLIFE CENTRES, WILD BIRDS and SWANS

• GENERAL
• HART Wildlife Rescue: Overton, Hampshire: http://www.hartwildlife.org.uk: HART Wildlife Rescue cares for sick, injured and abandoned wildlife. Our main objective is to return all our patients to the wild as soon as they are fit and strong enough to fend for themselves. Based at Dellands, in Overton, it is the only wildlife care centre in Hampshire.
• Help Wildlife: National Organisation: http://www.helpwildlife.co.uk: Detailed advice about when and how to help injured and orphaned wildlife and UK wide listings of wildlife rescue organisations
• Mammal Society www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal As you would imagine, this covers all sorts of mammals. We didn‹t know how else to list this site.
• UK Safari:: http://www.uksafari.com Not a rescue centre but a site for anyone interested in the wildlife and countryside of Britain. Features facts, photos, and a free newsletter. Go there now.
• wildlife site: http://www.wildlifeforever.net : Advise on creating and maintaining your garden/plot for wildlife with a self-sustaining eco system. Pictures, Photo of the month and more.
• BADGERS
• Badgers www.badgers.org.uk
• Badgerland www.badgerland.co.uk Information about the British/Eurasian Badger and links to other badger-friendly sites
• Badger Watch and RescueDyfed: Ceridigion,Carmarthanshire and Pembrokeshire: http://www.badger-watch.co.uk Badger protection and rescue organisation operating in Wales.
• Binfield Badger Group www.binfieldbadgergroup.freeserve.co.uk (Berkshire)
• Cheshire Badgers http://www.cheshirewildlife.co.uk account and pictures of badger watching activity
• Cornwall badger rescue: st.ives cornwall: http://www.cornwall-badger-rescue.co.uk Rescue injured and distresed badger and give advise on badger subjects
• Gwent Badger Group: Gwent area: http://www.gwentbadgergroup.org.uk: Badger rescue rehabilitation, sett protection and education.
• Herefordshire Badger Group: : http://www.badger-groups.org.uk/herefordshire Working for the conservation of badgers in Herefordshire.
• New Forest Badger Watch www.badgerwatch.co.uk
• Neath Port Talbot Badger Group http://homepage.ntlworld.com/badger10/index.htm A wildlife animal site, dedicated to the protection of the badger meles meles, one of the UKs best known mammals. Group based at Neath and Port Talbot and looks after local badgers and setts. Site inlcudes information, contacts, pictures, forum, guest book etc.
• North East Essex Badger Group http://www.neebg.co.uk One of over 80 such groups within theU K that are members of the National Federation of Badger Groups
• Worcestershire Badger Society: Worcestershire: http://www.worcestershirebadgersociety.co.uk: Dedicated to the protection of badgers in Worcestershire, with rehabilitation facilities and emergency help line
• BATS
• The Bat Conservation Trust www.bats.org.uk
• BAT RESCUE. Dorset. Call Nick or Sandie Ridge on 01202 246555 or Mobile 07780 997881.....25, Goldfinch Road, Creekmoor, Poole, Dorset.
• Herts & Middx Bat Group: http://www.hmbg.org.uk: Advice care and rescue of grounded injured or orphaned bats by licensed carers in Hertfordshire or Middlesex
• Nottinghamshire Bat Rescue: http://www.nottsbatrescue.org.uk A group of volunteers linked to the North and South Nottingham Bat Groups. Provide a rescue and rehabilitation service for sick, orphaned, injured and grounded bats. Aim is to rehabilitate and release bats back into the wild and for those unable to be released provide long term care.
• FOXES (See entries under Animal Rights)
• Foxwatch & Squirrel Support: http://www.geocities.com/squirrel19712001/Hedgehogs.html
  National Society dedicated to the welfare of foxes, squirrels, chipmunks, hedgehogs, etc. Membership of active and non-active like-minded people. Publishes 'Bushy-Tales' no less than 6 times a year for the Members - new members very welcome. Advice available
• National Fox Welfare Society  www.nfws.org.uk Volunteer organisation in the UK dedicated to helping foxes. Lots of information and links - a superb site.
• The Fox Project http://www.foxproject.org.uk A charity dedicated to the protection, rescue, and advocacy for the wild fox. It operates in S.E. England, in the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex and S. London areas. As well as speaking up for the fox, it  provides rescue for injured and abandoned foxes and works closely with volunteers and wildlife to provide for their care and rehabilitation back into the wild.
• Derbyshire Foxes www.derbyfoxes.org Rescue centre & sanctuary for sick, injured and orphaned foxes in the UK A very nice site with lots of foxy links. Worth a visit for the title picture alone.
• HEDGEHOGS
• British Hedgehog Preservation Society: http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk: Founded in 1982 and Based in Shropshire (but covers the UK) BHPS provides help and advice on hedgehogs and maintains a list of hedgehog and wildlife care centres across the UK who can take hedgehogs in. Produces education packs for schools and a wide range of information leaflets. (Loads of useful stuff on here - Ed)
• C.R.A.S.H. (Care, Rehabilitation & Action for Sick Hedgehogs) www.hedgehogs.org.uk Care, Rehabilitation & Aid for Sick Hedgehogs. A wildlife hospital specialising in the care,treatment and rehabilitation of sick,injured and orphaned hedgehogs in Dorset.
• Epping Forest Hedgehog Rescue: Loughton, Essex : http://www.thehedgehog.co.uk: Taking in sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs from the West Essex & North East London areas. Emergency collection facility available for those without transport ( local areas only ) Very informative site
• European Hedgehog Research Group www.ngo.grida.no/ngo/hedgehog/
• Flockton Hedgehog Rescue: Wakefield, West Yorkshire: http://www.hedgehoghospital.co.uk Cares for sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs.
• Fylde Hedgehog Rescue: North West Lancashire: http://www.hedgehog-rescue.org.uk: A volunteer organisation based in North West Lancashire dedicated to providing high quality care for sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs.
• Hedgehogs www.perky.co.uk
• Hedgehog Care: Hertfordshires: http://www.hedgehog-care.co.uk: Taking in sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs from the hertfordshire area. Teamed with a registered charity and excellent veterinary support. Emergency collection facility available for those without transport ( local areas only )
• Hedgehog Helpline (Cardiff) www.hedgehg.dircon.co.uk/hedgehogs Takes in sick, injured & orphaned hedgehogs. Offers free advice. Site is very easy to use with lots of info.
• Hedgehog Hospital /small mammal rescue: Newton Abbot: http://www.hedgehog.org.uk: Hospital for hedgehogs but will also care for all small mammals and garden birds,ducks and gulls.
• Hedgehog S.O.S: Wolverhampton: http://www.hedgehogsos.net: rescue centre for hedgehogs,heat pads etc.able to collect if necessary
• Jersey Hedgehog Preservation Group: Jersey, Channel Islands: http://jerseyhedgehogs.co.uk/ Rescues and cares for sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs in Jersey, C.I. and releases them back into the wild once they are fit. Also work to increase public awareness about hedgehogs and the dangers they face living on a small island in close proximity to humans.
• Meadow Hedgehog Rescue http://www.meadowhr.freeserve.co.uk Cares for many species as well as hedgehogs - foxes, seagulls, rabbits etc.
• Pricklyspatch hedgehog rescue: riddings derbyshire: http://www.pricklyspatch.co.uk Care and rehabiitation for hedgehogs but will also take foxes and squirrels
• Spikes Sanctuary: PEEBLES - Scotland: http://www.spikessanctuary.co.uk: Hedgehog rescue covering south of Scotland can help with other wildlife
• Welsh Hedgehog Hospital: www.whh.org/hospital.htm Very big site with loads of useful information about hedgehogs. Very easy to navigate. Well worth a visit.
• West Midlands Hedgehog Rescue: Cannock, Staffordshire: http://www.west-midlands-hedgehogs.co.uk Rescue sick and injured hedgehogs from south Stafforshire and the north of the West Midlands area
• Wyre Forest Hedgehog Rescue: Wyre Forest, Worcestershire: http://www.wfhr.org.uk: Help sick and injured hedgehogs in the Wyre Forest, Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport area and return them to their rightful habitat as and when they are strong enough.
• OTTERS
• Anglesey Otter Project: Anglesey, Wales: http://www.gwyfyn.freeuk.com/
  Undertakes practical conservation for otters and river on Anglesey.Includes a monthly otter diary.
• Essex Otters: Essex: http://www.geocities.com/essex_otters/: Essex Otters represents and supports the International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF) in the Essex region.Aim to provide information on otters in Essex, as well as advice on what you can do to help them
• I.O.S.F (International Otter Survival Fund) www.otter.org Based on the Isle of Skye, Treat all wildlife casualties but specialise in otters and seals. Good network of people willing to help with transport so can take casualties from all over Scotland
• OTTERNET www.otternet.com Not a UK site but covers the World (mainly N.America) Lots of good otter stuff.
• OTTER TRUST http://gazetteer.interdart.co.uk/east/nature/OTTERT
• SHREWS
• The Shrew Site http://members.vienna.at/shrew Not really a rescue site but contains everything anybody would ever want to know about shrews.
• SQUIRRELS
  Most squirrel sites are concerned with how to get rid of them. These listed ones are more friendly.
• Foxwatch & Squirrel Support: http://www.geocities.com/squirrel19712001/Hedgehogs.html
  National Society dedicated to the welfare of foxes, squirrels, chipmunks, hedgehogs, etc. Membership of active and non-active like-minded people. Publishes 'Bushy-Tales' no less than 6 times a year for the Members - new members very welcome. Advice available
• Friends of the Anglesey red squirrels: Llangefni, Anglesey: http://www.redsquirrels.info: Red squirrel conservation on the island of anglesey. Reintroduction and release of captive and rehabilitated red squirrels.
• Meon Valley Squirrel Rescue: Hampshire: http://www.squirrels.info Building up a network to find homes for squirrels in distress all over the UK.Web site also includes a little about squirrels in the United Kingdom. This site is devoted to the exchange of information, so would like to hear from anyone with relevent experiences to share.
• TOADS
• Madingley Toad Rescue http://members.tripod.com/~toadrescue/
• WILDCAT
• Scottish wildcat: Morayshire: http://www.scottishwildcats.co.uk: Text and image intensive site dedicated to the care and conservation of felis silvestris grampia, the Scottish wildcat.
• WOLVES
• Wolf Trust: National Organisation: http://www.wolftrust.org.uk : Wolf reintroduction in Britain in the Scottish Highlands