About the Authors

Philipp Henschel

phenschel@panthera.org

Affiliation Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America

Lauren Coad

Affiliations Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, School of Geography and Environmental Planning, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Cole Burton

Affiliations Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Beatrice Chataigner

Affiliation IUCN, Protected Area Program, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Andrew Dunn

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Nigeria Program, Calabar, Nigeria

David MacDonald

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Yohanna Saidu

Affiliation Nigeria National Park Service, Garki-Abuja, Nigeria

Luke T. B. Hunter

Affiliation Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PH CB LTBH. Performed the experiments: PH CB YS. Analyzed the data: PH LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC AD. Wrote the paper: PH LC LTBH CB DM.