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Successful conservation usually takes a multidisciplinary approach. In Raptor Conservation in Practice I demonstrate how saving raptor species through techniques like captive breeding and release, and others, is effective only with research to solve conservation problems and measure results, and working to develop sustainable solutions with stakeholders using methods drawn from the disciplines of forensic research and social sciences respectively. I use examples from The Peregrine Fund’s experience over nearly 50 years of putting conservation into practice to develop the idea of the multidisciplinary approach and cite examples of recovery of critically endangered species such as the Peregrine Falcon, California Condor and Ridgway’s Hawk, forensic research to discover a new cause of mortality among vultures in South Asia, and community-based conservation solutions with stakeholders in Madagascar and Panama.

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Many Peregrine Fund staff contributed ideas and text to this chapter, which is a condensed compilation of conservation actions and research that have often led to success over the organization’s nearly 50-year lifespan. I particularly wish to acknowledge valuable contributions by David Anderson, Marta Curti, Thomas Hayes, Chris McClure, Darcy Ogada, Lily Arison René de Roland, Amy Siedenstrang, Russell Thorstrom, Hernan Vargas, José Vargas, and Munir Virani.

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Watson, R.T. (2018). Raptor Conservation in Practice. In: Sarasola, J., Grande, J., Negro, J. (eds) Birds of Prey. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73745-4_20

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