Dr Teresa Lappe-Osthege is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research is informed by political ecology and green political economy, and focuses on environmental politics, wildlife crime and conservation, with a regional focus on the EU and the Western Balkans. She currently leads research on the UKRI-funded Beastly Business Project that examines the links between corporate businesses and green-collar crime in the illegal songbird trade in Europe, focusing on Cyprus and Italy.