Isabel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stirling working on conservation conflicts surrounding illegal hunting of the Lesser White-fronted Goose in Kazakhstan. Isabel is a community ecologist, and alongside working on conservation conflicts, also continues to work on tropical forest carbon storage and the long-term biodiversity and carbon impacts of mega-dams in the Amazon Basin (the focus of her PhD). The interplay between big industry and biodiversity is a particular interest for Isabel, following her MRes at Imperial College London investigating the impacts of oil and gas infrastructure on the Ustyurt Plateau, Uzbekistan.