Welcome to HART Wildlife Rescue. We hope you will find our web site interesting and look forward to hearing from you if you would like to become involved in our work.

HART Wildlife Rescue aims to relieve the suffering caused to wildlife and to provide a rescue, treatment and rehabilitation service. The centre now deals with around 1,000 casualties every year.

There is no doubt that without HART’s existence many of these animals and birds would suffer a long and painful death, or be unnecessarily put to sleep. Happily, about half make a full recovery and are returned to the wild.

All the casualties are cared for by a team of staff, mainly volunteers, in our hospital which operates with the support of qualified veterinary surgeons. A fully equipped ambulance, kindly donated to us by staff at Sun Life of Canada, is used for rescues and transportation of casualties.

Patients are most often brought to us by caring members of the public. We also collect from local vets and take over the care of creatures from other animal rescue organisations like the RSPCA who do not have the facilities or resources locally to care for them.

We are dedicated to the needs of wildlife and see a growing need for public education as human interaction with wildlife in the countryside increases. It is always our intention to release back to the wild. If a creature couldn’t survive we humanely put it to sleep, but not everything is so black and white!

The majority of casualties brought to us are as a direct result of man's intervention in their world. They are often victims of traffic accidents, mauled by cats, poisoned by slug pellets and lead shot, trapped by netting and fishing line, removed from their homes by demolition, garden clearance and hedge cutting.

As the only wildlife centre of its kind in Hampshire resources are often overstretched. Regrettably, we often have to close to new admissions during busy periods due to lack of space.

But we have been fortunate to acquire a site and planning permission for a purpose built wildlife hospital and education centre and are currently embarking on a major fundraising campaign to build and run it. Please help us if you can by making a donation and giving our wildlife a helping hand. Thank you.