Found a wild animal in trouble? We can help.
Emergency help for wild animals, 24/7
We come out to the animal, give emergency aid, then treat and rehabilitate it. Our goal is to return it to the wild. Where that is impossible, we provide a home for life.
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Our main response area is the south of Ukraine. We coordinate rescue and evacuation across the whole country.
Found an injured wild animal?
An owl, a roe deer, a swan, a hedgehog, a stork, a bat, a turtle or any other wild animal.
Witnessed cruelty to a wild animal?
Wild animals used for photos, entertainment or sale, or kept in conditions that threaten their health and welfare. Tell us — we will respond.
A wild animal needs help at the front?
We help soldiers, volunteers and civilians rescue wild animals from combat zones, arrange their evacuation and provide specialised veterinary care.
Found a wild animal’s young?
Found a nestling, a fawn, a leveret or another youngster? Do not rush to pick it up — in many cases the parents are nearby, and stepping in only does harm.
How a rescue works
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You tell us about the animal
By phone or through the online form.
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We assess the situation
We check the details and decide on the best plan.
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We organise the help
Depending on the case we send a team, arrange an evacuation or find another safe way.
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Treatment and rehabilitation
The animal receives specialised veterinary care and goes through rehabilitation.
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Return to the wild, or lifetime care
Once recovered the animal returns to the wild; where that is impossible it stays under lifetime care.
What to do if…
Practical advice from specialists with years of experience in wildlife care.
- What to do
…you found a fawn or a moose calf?
- What to do
…you found a swift on the ground?
- What to do
…you found a marten, weasel or polecat kit?
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…you found a lone owlet?
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…you found a nestling?
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…you found a hedgehog?
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…you found a bat?
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…a swan is tangled in fishing line?
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…a bird flew into a window?
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…you found a leveret?
About us
We never promise miracles
Vet Crew Emergency Wildlife Response is an emergency service for wild animals hurt by road accidents, fires, natural disasters, war or other human activity. We organise the rescue, provide specialised veterinary care and rehabilitation, and return the animal to the wild. Where that is impossible, it stays under lifetime professional care.
Wild animals often reach us in a critical state, so we cannot guarantee a rescue. But in every case we do everything we can to give them a chance.
More about the projectA narrow-specialist team
We work only with exotic and wild animals. Years of experience let us help even in the hardest cases.
Our own veterinary hospital
Purpose-equipped for exotic and wild animals, with an inpatient ward built around their needs.
We work across Ukraine
Our main response area is the south. For other regions we coordinate rescue and evacuation.
A scientific approach
We follow international protocols, train abroad regularly and bring modern treatment and rehabilitation methods home.
A lifetime care centre
We build conditions as close to the wild as possible for animals that cannot be released.
Part of an international community
We belong to the international professional community of wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation specialists.
The animal’s path
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Emergency call-out
A fast response, 24/7
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Treatment
Highly specialised veterinary care
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Rehabilitation
Recovery and preparation for life in the wild
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Release
Return to the natural environment
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A home for life
A safe home for those who need lifetime care
We help wild animals of many kinds
- Birds
- Large mammals
- Small mammals
- Reptiles
- Amphibians
Rescue stories
Every year more than 12,000 wild animals receive our help.
Behind every rescued animal there is a story. These are a few of the thousands made possible by the people who care and by our team’s daily work.
What we do
The Vet Crew ecosystem of animal care
Three connected branches working together to cover the full cycle — from emergency rescue to treatment, rehabilitation and lifetime care.
- Vet Crew Emergency Wildlife Response
Emergency help for wild animals, 24/7
We take reports around the clock, coordinate rescues and arrange evacuation of injured wild animals to specialised veterinary care.
You are on this site - Vet Crew Hospital
A veterinary hospital for exotic and wild animals
Diagnostics, treatment, surgery, intensive care, inpatient stay. We work only with exotic and wild animals, and patients are seen by highly specialised vets.
Site in preparation - Vet Crew Sanctuary
A lifetime care centre for wild animals
A safe home for animals that, because of injury, exploitation or their past, can no longer live on their own. Here they receive lifetime professional care in conditions close to the wild.
Site in preparation
Support the rescue
You are what makes rescue possible
Every day we drive out to rescues and carry out complex treatment and rehabilitation. Every contribution keeps that work going and gives wild animals a new chance.
Make a donationThe link will be added before launch
Our shop
Every paw tells a story
Eco-friendly merchandise with meaning. Real paw prints of the animals we rescued carry their stories, and 80% of every purchase goes to our lifetime care centre.
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