About the Authors

Andreas Wilting

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Wilting, Anna Cord

a.wilting@gmx.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Anna Cord

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Wilting, Anna Cord

Affiliations Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

Andrew J. Hearn

Affiliations Global Canopy Programme, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Deike Hesse

Affiliation German Institute of Human Nutrition, Department of Experimental Diabetes, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany

Azlan Mohamed

Affiliations Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, WWF-Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Carl Traeholdt

Affiliation Copenhagen Zoo, Department of Research and Conservation, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Susan M. Cheyne

Affiliations Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Orang-utan Tropical Peatland Project, University of Palangka Raya, Kalimantan, Indonesia

Sunarto Sunarto

Affiliations Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, WWF-Indonesia, Pekanbaru, Indonesia

Mohd-Azlan Jayasilan

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia, School of Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia

Joanna Ross

Affiliations Global Canopy Programme, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Aurélie C. Shapiro

Affiliation Conservation Science Program, WWF-US, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Anthony Sebastian

Affiliation Aonyx Environmental, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Stefan Dech

Affiliations Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

Christine Breitenmoser

Affiliation IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, c/o KORA, Muri b. Bern, Switzerland

Jim Sanderson

Affiliation Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Network, Los Altos, California, United States of America

J. W. Duckworth

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society Asia Program, New York, New York, United States of America

Heribert Hofer

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW AC. Performed the experiments: AW AC DH. Analyzed the data: AW AC HH. Wrote the paper: AW AC. Contributed to the data collection: AW AJH AM CT SMC SS MAJ JR AS CB JS JWD. Edited the manuscript: AJH DH AM CT SMC SS MAJ JR ACS AS SD CB JS JWD HH.