Lisanne S. Petracca

TL;DR: It is found that land use change will potentially lead to important range losses, particularly amongst already threatened carnivore species, and innovative interventions are needed to conserve carnivores outside protected areas to compliment any proposed expansion of the protected area network.

TL;DR: This paper assessed the effectiveness of African protected areas (PAs) at conserving lions and their prey, identified factors that influence conservation effectiveness, and identified patterns in the severity of various threats.

TL;DR: African governments and the international community need to increase the funding available for management by three to six times if PAs are to effectively conserve lions and other species and provide vital ecological and economic benefits to neighboring communities.

TL;DR: The index assesses the spatial, ecological and financial contributions of 152 nations towards conservation of the world’s terrestrial megafauna to emphasise the need for measuring conservation performance, help nations identify how best they could improve their efforts, and present a starting point for the development of more robust and inclusive measures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Bayesian hierarchical occupancy model was developed to gain robust inference, allowing for heterogeneity introduced in the sampling process over space and time, using records of jaguar occurrence prone to false positives and false negatives.