Daniel M. Parkerhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-5674,^1,2,* Vilis O. Nams,^1,3 Guy A. Balmehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3844-1720,^4,5 Colleen Begg,⁶ Keith Begg,⁶ Laura Bidner,⁷ Dirk Bockmuehl,⁸ Gabriele Cozzi,^9,10 Byron du Preez,¹¹ Julien Fattebert,^4,12 Krystyna Golabek,¹⁰ Tanith Grant,¹ Matt W. Hayward,^13,14 Ann-Marie Houser,¹⁵ Luke T.B. Hunter,^16,17 Lynne A. Isbell,^7,18 David Jenny,^19,20 Andrew J. Loveridge,¹¹ David W. Macdonald,¹¹ Gareth K.H. Mann,^1,4,5 Nakedi Maputla,¹⁴ Laurie Marker,²¹ Quinton E. Martins,^22,23 Nkabeng Maruping-Mzileni,²⁴ Joerg Melzheimer,⁸ Vera Menges,⁸ Phumuzile Nyoni,¹ John O'Brien,¹ Cailey Owen,¹² Tim Parker,¹ Ross Pitman,^4,5 R. John Power,²⁵ Rob Slotow,¹² Andrew Stein,^26,27,28 Villiers Steyn,²⁹ Ken Stratford,³⁰ Lourens H. Swanepoel,³¹ Abi Vanak,¹² Rudi Van Vuuren,³² Bettine Wachter,⁸ Florian Weise,^14,27,32 Chris C. Wilmers<sup>33

1</sup>Wildlife and Reserve Management Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda 6140, South Africa
²School of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Mpumalanga, Mbombela 1200, South Africa
³Department of Plant, Food and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Truro, Nova Scotia B2N, Canada
⁴Panthera, New York City, New York 10001, USA
⁵Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
⁶Niassa Carnivore Project, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
⁷Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, California, USA
⁸Department Evolutionary Ecology, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin 10115, Germany
⁹Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, Private Bag 13, Maun, Botswana
¹⁰Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Zurich University, Zürich 8000, Switzerland
¹¹Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology Department, University of Oxford, Abingdon OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
¹²Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
¹³Conservation Science Research Group, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales 2267, Australia
¹⁴Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
¹⁵Cheetah Conservation Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
¹⁶Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York 10001, USA
¹⁷School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
¹⁸Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
¹⁹Zoologisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern 3001, Switzerland
²⁰Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
²¹Cheetah Conservation Fund, Otjiwarongo, Namibia
²²The Cape Leopard Trust, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
²³True Wild LLC, Glen Ellen, California 95431, USA
²⁴Scientific Services, South African National Parks, Kimberley 8300, South Africa
²⁵Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism, North-West Provincial Government, Mahikeng 2735, South Africa
²⁶Landmark College, Putney, Vermont 05001, USA
²⁷Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01001, USA
²⁸CLAWS Conservancy, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
²⁹Department of Nature Conservation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
³⁰Ongava Research Centre, Windhoek, Namibia
³¹Department of Biology, University of Venda, Thohoyandou 0945, South Africa
³²N/a'an ku sê Research Programme, Windhoek, Namibia
³³Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA

^*To whom correspondence should be addressed: daniel.parker@ump.ac.za