Charlotte fell in love with the flora and fauna of the UK at a young age. Her interest in wildlife conservation developed throughout school where she was fortunate enough to volunteer on projects in Madagascar and Ecuador. This led her to complete a BSc in Zoology with Conservation at Bangor University. As part of her degree, Charlotte worked on an elephant reintegration project in Thailand. Charlotte continued to work here after graduating, leading the biodiversity project and educational outreach programme. Following this, she returned to the UK working as an Ecologist for several years, primarily on protected species surveys and mitigation, where her love of bats developed. This year whilst the bats were hibernating, she escaped the cold UK winter and worked in the Seychelles, monitoring lemon shark, turtle, tortoise and mangrove populations. Charlotte is now doing a PhD at the University of Sussex, where she aims to guide bats — with a specific focus on horseshoe species — using acoustic lures and deterrents around anthropogenic threats within the landscape.