Conservation
Falconers are often instrumental in developing breeding programs for raptors for release into the wild as well as rehabilitating injured raptors, banding raptors, and initiating raptor studies of various kinds - an example is the recent, and successful, anatum peregrine breeding and release program started in Manitoba by a falconer. Our government currently does not have a repopulation or recovery strategy for anatum peregrines on the Island of Newfoundland - despite that this subspecies of peregrine is thought to be extinct here. It is highly likely that the NLFA will make serious efforts to have this changed in the near future.
The first gyrfalcons ever bred in captivity were bred by a Canadian falconer. Famous Canadian falconer Frank Beebe was the first North American falconer to breed peregrine falcons in captivity. These birds, and the techniques falconers developed, were instrumental in resulting in the birds that are being used today in repopulation efforts. Falconers globally can be proud of being instrumental in creating the "poster child" for endangered species and directing the modern world down a path of even caring about such things.