Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Additional co-authors: Holly T Dublin, James A Estes, Kristoffer T Everatt, Mauro Galetti, Varun R Goswami, Matt W Hayward, Simon Hedges, Michael Hoffmann, Luke TB Hunter, Graham IH Kerley, Mike Letnic, Taal Levi, John C Morrison, Michael Paul Nelson, Thomas M Newsome, Luke Painter, Robert M Pringle, Christopher J Sandom, John Terborgh, Adrian Treves, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, John A Vucetich, Aaron J Wirsing, Arian D Wallach, Christopher Wolf, Rosie Woodroffe, Hillary Young, And Li Zhang

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  BioScience

• Publication date

  2017-03-01

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/BIOSCI/BIW168
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

  2016cited by this paper
• Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores

  2015cited by this paper
• Conservation inequality and the charismatic cat: Felis felicis

  2015cited by this paper
• Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

  2014cited by this paper
• A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

  2014cited by this paper
• Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores

  2014cited by this paper
• Defaunation in the Anthropocene

  2014cited by this paper
• Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

  2012cited by this paper
• Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

  2011cited by this paper
• [Rezension von] T. Caro,Conservation by proxy: Indicator, umbrella, keystone, flagship, and other surrogate species

  2011cited by this paper
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

  2010cited by this paper
• Human attitudes towards animals in relation to species similarity to humans: a multivariate approach

  2009cited by this paper
• Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

  2009cited by this paper
• Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States

  2009cited by this paper
• Jumbos or bust: do tourists' perceptions lead to an under-appreciation of biodiversity?

  2003cited by this paper
• Options for the conservation of large and medium-sized mammals in the Cape Floristic Region hotspot, South Africa

  2003cited by this paper

• Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

  2025cites this paper
• Conservation priorities for global amphibian biodiversity

  2025cites this paper
• Conservation strategies for mammals in data-deficient regions: Analysing research trends and identifying conservation priority areas

  2025cites this paper
• Apex Scavenger Declines Have Cascading Effects on Soil Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Processes

  2025cites this paper
• Compiling and analyzing the non-native flora of a megadiverse Neotropical country: a new catalogue for continental Ecuador

  2025cites this paper
• Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests

  2025cites this paper
• Sustainability insights from Late Pleistocene climate change and horse migration patterns.

  2025cites this paper
• Spotted! Remote camera traps used in a novel design reveal a perilous situation for the Critically Endangered Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) in a conflict‐affected protected area in Benin

  2025cites this paper
• Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s

  2025cites this paper
• Habitat associations of desert bighorn sheep in Sonora, Mexico

  2025cites this paper
• Release of tree species diversity follows loss of elephants from evergreen tropical forests

  2025cites this paper
• Habitat suitability of common leopard in northern Pakistan

  2025cites this paper
• Addressing temporal trends in survivorship from cross-sectional sampling designs: A modelling framework with applications for megafauna conservation

  2024cites this paper
• Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion

  2024cites this paper
• Playing the CITES game: Lessons on global conservation governance from African megafauna

  2024cites this paper
• Insights from 20 years of mammal population research in Indonesia

  2024cites this paper
• African Rhino Conservation and the Interacting Influences of Property, Prices, and Policy

  2024cites this paper
• Decadal changes of macrofauna community in a semi-enclosed Bay of Yueqing in East China Sea.

  2024cites this paper
• Seed dispersal function of the brown bear Ursus arctos on Hokkaido Island in northern Japan: gut passage time, dispersal distance, germination, and effects of remaining pulp

  2024cites this paper
• Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection

  2023cites this paper
• Asian elephants distinguish sexual status and identity of unfamiliar elephants using urinary odours

  2023cites this paper
• The Alien Flora of Australia (AFA), a unified Australian national dataset on plant invasion

  2023influential citation
• Protecting megafauna: group-specific threats and conservation strategies

  2023cites this paper
• Worldwide late-Quaternary population declines in extant megafauna are due to Homo sapiens rather than climate

  2022cites this paper
• Is Ecotourism an Opportunity for Large Wild Animals to Thrive?

  2022cites this paper
• Historical and current distribution ranges and loss of mega-herbivores and carnivores of Asia

  2021cites this paper
• Long‐term monitoring of seed dispersal by Asian elephants in a Sundaland rainforest

  2021cites this paper
• Iterative human and automated identification of wildlife images

  2021cites this paper
• Spatial variation in population-density of snow leopards in a multiple use landscape in Spiti Valley, Trans-Himalaya

  2021cites this paper
• Living With Elephants: Evidence-Based Planning to Conserve Wild Elephants in a Megadiverse South East Asian Country

  2021cites this paper
• Pathways towards coexistence with large carnivores in production systems

  2021cites this paper
• Using camera traps to estimate ungulate abundance: a comparison of mark–resight methods

  2021cites this paper
• Pathways towards coexistence with large carnivores in production systems

  2021cites this paper
• Myths and assumptions about human‐wildlife conflict and coexistence

  2020cites this paper
• Does money “buy” tolerance toward damage‐causing wildlife?

  2020cites this paper
• Climate change vulnerability of Asia’s most iconic megaherbivore: greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

  2020cites this paper
• Reducing the sixth mass extinction: Understanding the value of human-altered landscapes to the conservation of the world's largest terrestrial mammals

  2020cites this paper
• Growth and mortality of the giant arapaima in Guyana: Implications for recovery of an over-exploited population

  2020cites this paper
• Tigers against the odds: Applying macro-ecology to species recovery in India

  2020cites this paper
• SEX RATIO AND AGE STRUCTURE PATTERNS OF ASIAN ELEPHANTS FROM PENINSULAR MALAYSIA REVEALED BY NON-INVASIVE SURVEYS

  2020cites this paper
• Spatial variation in population-density, movement and detectability of snow leopards in a multiple use landscape in Spiti Valley, Trans-Himalaya

  2020cites this paper
• Integration of ecosystem science into radioecology: A consensus perspective.

  2020cites this paper
• Physiological implications of life at the forest interface of oil palm agriculture: blood profiles of wild Malay civets (Viverra tangalunga)

  2020cites this paper
• Assessing habitat requirements of Asian tapir in forestry landscapes: Implications for conservation

  2020cites this paper
• From the Mountains and Glaciers Down to the Rivers to the Estuaries and Oceans: Another Sad Tale of 18 or so Rivers

  2020cites this paper
• Ecosystem Function and Services of Aquatic Predators in the Anthropocene.

  2019cites this paper
• DnB, the Database of Nymphalids in Brazil, with a Checklist for Standardized Species Lists

  2019cites this paper
• Evaluation of Maternal Penning to Improve Calf Survival in the Chisana Caribou Herd

  2019cites this paper
• Feeding a growing population within planetary boundaries: A three-step strategy

  2019cites this paper
• Wildlife value orientations and their relationships with mid-size predator management

  2019cites this paper
• Large mammal declines and the incipient loss of mammal-bird mutualisms in an African savanna ecosystem

  2018cites this paper
• Evaluating relative abundance indices for terrestrial herbivores from large-scale camera trap surveys

  2018cites this paper
• Introduced megafauna are rewilding the Anthropocene

  2018cites this paper
• The contribution of predators and scavengers to human well-being

  2018cites this paper
• Why did the elephant cross the road? The complex response of wild elephants to a major road in Peninsular Malaysia

  2018cites this paper
• Assessing occupancy and habitat connectivity for Baird’s tapir to establish conservation priorities in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico

  2018cites this paper
• Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India

  2018cites this paper
• Promoting human–dingo co-existence in Australia: moving towards more innovative methods of protecting livestock rather than killing dingoes (Canis dingo)

  2018cites this paper
• The misunderstood sixth mass extinction

  2018cites this paper
• Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation

  2018cites this paper
• Opportunities and challenges for the study and conservation of large carnivores

  2017cites this paper
• Conservation implications for dingoes from the maternal and paternal genome: Multiple populations, dog introgression, and demography

  2017cites this paper
• Freshwater Megafauna: Flagships for Freshwater Biodiversity under Threat

  2017cites this paper
• Poor construction, not time, takes its toll on subsidised fences designed to deter large carnivores

  2017cites this paper
• Relative efforts of countries to conserve world's megafauna

  2017cites this paper
• Changes in attitudes toward wolves before and after an inaugural public hunting and trapping season: early evidence from Wisconsin's wolf range

  2015cites this paper
• Kent Academic

  year unknowncites this paper