South Carolina – Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation

 All SC Animal Protection, Rescue Resources

If you find an injured or orphaned wild animal, please contact one of the following rescue groups right away. Each has an emergency hotline. Leave a message and they will call you back.

The SC Department of Natural Resources also maintains the Wildlife Rehabilitators Registry. After clicking on the link, scroll down for PDF listings by animal type.

You can also click here for a list of wildlife veterinarians and rehabilitators in South Carolina. Southeastern Outdoors maintains an alternate list of SC rehabilitators.

If you can not reach a rescue group or rehabilitator immediately, here are some tips you can follow to help the animal survive:

SC Native Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Organizations

• Animal Rehabilitators of the Carolinas - Rock Hill (Charlotte, NC)
  Emergency Rescue Hotline - 704-552-2329
  
  
• Carolina Wildlife Care - Columbia
  Emergency Rescue Hotline - 803-772-3994
  
  
• Foothills Animal Rescue - Greenville
  Emergency Rescue Hotline - 864-282-1917
  
  
• The Center for Birds of Prey - Charleston
  Emergency Rescue Hotline - 843-971-7474
  
  
• Keeper of the Wild - Saint George
  Emergency Rescue Hotline - 843-636-1659
  
  
• Paws Animal Wildlife Sanctuary - Laurens
  Phone Number - 864-683-3190
  
  
• South Carolina Coastal Animal Rescue & Education - Georgetown
  Phone Number - 843-546-7893
  
  
• Wildlife Rehab of Greenville
  Emergency Rescue Hotline - 864-233-0339
  

SC Domestic & Non-native Wildlife Rescue Organizations

• Coastal Large Animal Rescue Team - Charleston - cows, horses, plus some native animals like deer and loggerhead turtles
  
• International Primate Protection League - Summerville
• Safe Haven - Pickens County - permanent refuge for rescued exotic wildlife
  

SC Wildlife Protection and Advocacy Organizations

• ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge
  – National Estuarine Research Reserve
  
• Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program
• Island Turtle Team - Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island
• Kiawah Turtles' "Turtle Nest"
• South Carolina Waterfowl Association
• South Carolina Wildlife Federation
• Town of Edisto Beach Turtle Project

Related SC Wildlife Rescue Resources

• SC DNR's Wildlife Rehabilitators Registry - click , then scroll down for PDF listings by animal type