Species Coordinator
Amy Deane
Amy Deane, president of Save the Wild Chinchillas, is currently working with researchers in Chile and Bolivia on conservation of both Chinchilla species. She has spent over 20 years studying chinchillas. In 1995, she began field studies of wild chinchillas. Since 2000, she has spent most of her time in the field restoring habitat and educating others about the plight of chinchillas. This includes a large amount of time working in the nursery, seed gathering, creating restoration plots and artificial burrows and observation studies. She has aided in the research of long-tailed chinchillas, the Darwin fox, the Andean bear and burn compartments of the Ordway Preserve (Florida) by creating GIS databases. She has also enhanced habitat of endangered birds and bats. As a graduate student at the University of Florida she aided in nest depredation studies.