Beavers, bobcats, coyote, gray foxes and red, mink, muskrats and otters are among the animals that can be hunted or trapped for their fur in South Carolina despite a national need for predators for a healthy ecosystem.

The Edisto River is the longest free flowing black water river in the US and provides habitat for Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon among more than 200 other fish species.

South Carolina has an incarceration rate of 678 per 100,000 people its prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities, and locks up a higher percentage of its people than any democratic country on earth.

South Carolina is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.

South Carolina is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.