 As Director of Huilo-Huilo Foundation, she was part of the emerging private conservation movement of the early 2000s.At 60,000 square km, Huilo-Huilo is a private for profit natural reserve and ecotourism project in southern Chile.For this work, she lived in the field (years 2001-2004), near the shores of Northern Patagonia's Pirihueico Lake with her parrot Tuk.