THE PEREGRINE FUND Vision 2050 A Strategic Plan for 2018-2022 Table of Contents 1 The Peregrine Fund Table of Contents Strategic Plan, 2017 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 4 CONSERVATION STRATEGIES ................................................................................................................ 25 Global Raptor Impact Network: ............................................................................................................ 26 Recovering the Northern Aplomado Falcon ......................................................................................... 40 Golden Eagle Monitoring ...................................................................................................................... 52 Propagation at the World Center for Birds of Prey .............................................................................. 62 California Condor Propagation ............................................................................................................. 66 California Condor Reintroduction Program .......................................................................................... 71 North American Non-Lead Program ..................................................................................................... 81 American Kestrel Partnership ............................................................................................................... 87 Gyrfalcon and Tundra Conservation Program .................................................................................... 103 Andean Condor Conservation in Ecuador ........................................................................................... 115 Impact on Andean Condors of Yawar Fiesta in Peru........................................................................... 125 West Indies - Ridgway’s Hawk Conservation Project .......................................................................... 135 Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned Hawk Project ......................................................................................... 153 Cuban Kite Project............................................................................................................................... 160 Orange-breasted Falcon Conservation in Belize and Guatemala ....................................................... 164 Harpy Eagle Research and Conservation ............................................................................................ 171 Darien Landscape Conservation Initiative .......................................................................................... 178 Saving Africa’s Vultures from the Scourge of Poisoning ................................................................ 187 Madagascar Conservation Project ...................................................................................................... 199 Philippine Eagle Conservation Project ................................................................................................ 208 Critically Endangered Vultures in Central India .................................................................................. 215 Raptor Safe Initiative .......................................................................................................................... 220 ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES ................................................................................................................ 224 Global Engagement Strategic Plan ...................................................................................................... 225 Education Program at the Velma Morrison Interpretive Center ........................................................ 236 Neotropical Raptor Network ............................................................................................................... 244 Neotropical Leadership Development ................................................................................................ 249 Developing Africa’s Conservation Leadership .................................................................................... 257 2 The Peregrine Fund Table of Contents Strategic Plan, 2017 for Raptors .......................................................................................................................................... 257 BUILDING CAPACITY ............................................................................................................................ 264 Development....................................................................................................................................... 265 Business Office .................................................................................................................................... 280 Information Technology Strategic Plan ............................................................................................... 284 Facilities, Maintenance & Construction, and Vehicles........................................................................ 288 3 The Peregrine Fund Executive Summary Strategic Plan, 2017 Executive Summary The Peregrine Fund is responding to 21st Century conservation challenges with a new strategic plan based on the conviction of our founders—“we will succeed by using science to inform decisions and by not accepting failure as an option”—so that by the year 2050 we will have helped create a vision of success in which bird of prey populations and their ecosystems thrive; we have enriched the lives of local communities where we work and improved their future; we have earned the reputation and serve as global experts on birds of prey and their conservation; and raptors are valued by all humans. Our strategy stands upon three transformative outcomes: conservation, engagement, and capacity. Conservation will be achieved by preventing raptor extinctions, protecting areas of high raptor conservation value, and addressing landscape-level threats impacting multiple species. Engagement will be reached by inspiring people to value raptors and take action, serving as a catalyst for change, and investing in tomorrow’s conservation leaders. Capacity outcomes are centered on The Peregrine Fund’s capacity to apply our core values, promise, and guiding principles to complex conservation challenges. Capacity will be built by assembling the infrastructure, facilities and people, and raising sufficient funds to execute the actions needed to reach measurable, time-bound goals on an iterative five-year planning cycle. In the first year of our five-year plan we will focus on building our organizational capacity for raising funds, building facilities, and creating science-based decision tools. In five years we will have modernized and expanded our headquarters in Boise, created and implemented a data driven global raptor assessment program, and built our endowment to fund these support services in perpetuity. With these resources in progress, in the second and following years we will focus on new and expanded conservation projects around the world that optimize return on investment by addressing the greatest conservation benefits for raptors worldwide. In five years we will have developed scientifically defensible priorities for endangered species conservation, prioritized places of conservation value to raptors, and selected the greatest threats to raptors at the landscape level to confront. Two new conservation programs and a major engagement initiative will be in progress, providing vital feedback for strategic decisions on funding, impact, and return on investment: 4 The Peregrine Fund Executive Summary Strategic Plan, 2017 Darien Productive Landscape Project to conserve one of Earth’s most valuable and intact tropical forest blocks at the nexus between Central and South American biodiversity where the Harpy Eagle and Orange-breasted Falcon are sentinels of healthy ecosystem structure and function. North American Non-lead Program to end lead poisoning of California Condors, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles and other avian and mammalian scavengers from the remains of spent lead ammunition used to harvest or kill animals that are left in the field for wildlife to consume. Global Engagement Program to connect with people locally and globally to inspire them to value raptors, take action and be the catalyst for change that conserves raptors and other biodiversity. Our mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide. By conserving birds of prey worldwide we promise to change the future to benefit nature and humanity. Our promise is bold and we are optimistic. Our past successes are demonstrable evidence for our future accomplishments. Failure—is not an option. 5 The Peregrine Fund Acknowledgments Strategic Plan, 2017 Acknowledgments Collectively, many thousands of hours have contributed to developing, documenting, writing, reviewing and editing this plan. We particularly wish to thank the following for their unstinting work and intellectual contributions: Strategic Planning Committee Lynn Loacker Joell Brown Carter Montgomery—Chair Cina Forgason Calen Offield Sam Gary Geoff Pampush Jay Johnson—Chair Authors and Editors Carter Montgomery David Anderson, Ph.D. Will Murray—Consultant Linda Behrman Geoff Pampush Joell Brown Munir Virani, Ph.D. Marilyn Eagleton Rick Watson, Ph.D. Paul Juergens Erin Katzner Reviewers Tate Mason Dee Boersma, Ph.D. Chris McClure, Ph.D. Tom Cade, Ph.D. Brian Mutch Ginny Carter