Matthew H. Sniderhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1346-8943,^1,* Vidya R. Athreyahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3844-1720,² Guy A. Balme,³ Laura R. Bidner,⁴ Mohammed S. Farhadinia,^5,6 Julien Fattebert,^3,7,8 Matthew E. Gompper,⁹ Sanjay Gubbi,¹⁰ Luke T. B. Hunter,^7,11 Lynne A. Isbell,^12,13 David W. Macdonald,¹⁴ Morten Odden,¹⁵ Cailey R. Owen,¹⁶ Rob Slotow,¹⁷ James A. Spalton,¹⁸ Andrew B. Stein,^19,20,21 Villiers Steyn,²² Abi T. Vanak,^16,23,24 Florian J. Weise,^19,25 Christopher C. Wilmers,^12,26 Roland Kays<sup>1,27

1</sup>Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA (MHS, RK)
²Wildlife Conservation Society, Bangalore, Karnataka 560070, India (VRA)
³Project Pardus, Panthera, New York, NY 10018, USA (GAB, JF)
⁴School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA (LRB)
⁵Oxford Martin School and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3BD, United Kingdom (MSF)
⁶Future4Leopards Foundation, Tehran, 19988, Iran (MSF)
⁷Center for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (JF, LTBH)
⁸Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA (JF)
⁹Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA (MEG)
¹⁰Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, Karnataka 570002, India (SG) Kuvempu University, Shankarghatta, Karnataka 577451, India (SG)
¹¹Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA (LTBH)
¹²Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki 10400, Kenya (LAI, CCW)
¹³Department of Anthropology and Animal Behavior Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA (LAI)
¹⁴Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Tubney House, Oxfordshire OX2 5QL, Oxford, United Kingdom (DWM)
¹⁵Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, 2418 Elverum, Norway (MO)
¹⁶School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 4000, South Africa (CRO, ATV)
¹⁷School of Life Sciences, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, Scottsville 3209, South Africa (RS)
¹⁸Arabian Leopard Survey, Muscat 110, Oman (JAS)
¹⁹CLAWS Conservancy, 32 Pine Tree Drive, Worcester, MA 01609, USA (ABS, FJW)
²⁰Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA (ABS)
²¹Landmark College, Putney, VT 05346, USA (ABS)
²²Vision Photography, Hoedspruit, Limpopo 1380, South Africa (VS)
²³DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Hyderabad, Telengana 500034, India (ATV)
²⁴Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, Karnataka 560 064, India (ATV)
²⁵N/a'an ku se Research Programme, P.O. Box 99292, Windhoek, 10005, Namibia (FJW)
²⁶Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA (CCW)
²⁷Biodiversity Research Lab, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA (RK)

^*Correspondent: mhsnider@ncsu.edu