A student vet nurse from Falmouth started off rescuing birds last year but had no idea it would turn into a full operation.

Chloe-Mai Burrows is part of West Cornwall Wildlife Rescue and Rehab group, who are a team of volunteers who provide advice and organise the transport, treatment and rehabilitation for local wildlife rescues that are sick, injured or orphaned.

Chloe-Mai Burrows has been with the scheme since it started and has seen the network of vets grow as more people offer to help.

There are now two qualified vet nurses and a vet and other people offering to take the animals.

They offer to take in hedgehogs, mice, rats, voles, puffins, birds of prey, foxes, badgers, pigeons, "you name it we are happy to help," she said.

Chloe studies a Veterinary Nursing degree at Duchy College, she is currently on a placement with Head and Head Veterinary Practice in Helston and told Nub News how the project got started, she said:

"People would always take home the little fluffy puppies and kittens and anything that is quite cute, there was a little bird that needed feeding in the evenings and nobody wanted to take it home so I offered."

Chloe continued:

"Animals don't have anywhere to go, the RSPCA isn't taking them and vets are contacting us desperately. It has been very busy with the baby bird season at the minute.

"We all pay for it ourselves and we ask for donations, it is just about letting people know we are here.

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Chloe praised the support of the community, after an appeal for more items she has been "inundated", she added:

"I have tried to do all the funding side of it myself and we get what we can but recently because we have been getting so many animals in I have been struggling, we have just been inundated with items and I can't thank people enough, I was down to my last tin of cat food when people started bringing them over."

You can also help Chloe by donating via her Amazon Wishlist.

Looking to the future, Chloe doesn't plan to stop and sees this going further, she concluded:

"We are going to try and set up our own little mini hospital so we can have a proper place to run things and a dedicated place people can drop animals but that requires a bit of time so we will look at it when things calm down."

Follow the progress of the group here.