Amy Chabot

Amy’s career has been focused on the ecology and conservation of species at risk. In her first field job, sampling larval aquatic insects in fens and bogs of Northern Quebec and Labrador, she spent a day tagging along with biologists studying caribou in the area and has been fascinated by them ever since. She was hired as the Research and Conservation Programs Coordinator at African Lion Safari in Cambridge, Ontario, in 2016, where she has focused on integrating ex situ and in situ population management to achieve the IUCN’s One Plan Approach to conservation. Amy has a Master’s of Science from McGill University and a Doctorate from Queen’s University. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Queen’s, an advisor to the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Recovery Team, coordinates the international Loggerhead Shrike Working Group, Chairs CAZA’s Conservation Committee and Co-Chair’s the Conservation Centers for Species Survival’s North American Species Executive Committee. She co-founded the Canadian Species Initiative, which is the IUCN Conservation Planning Specialist Committees’ Canadian Regional Resource Center. As African Lion Safari’s Research and Conservation Programs Coordinator, she supports staff to develop innovative ways to assist in conservation of species at risk, using genomics, thermography and other scientific tools to promote animal health and welfare. She also works with in situ partners to assist conservation efforts of endangered species such as the critically endangered eastern loggerhead shrike and blue-throated macaw, for which African Lion Safari has conservation breeding programs.