Shepherding sub-saharan africa's wildlife through peak anthropogenic pressure toward a green Anthropocene

PA Lindsey, SH Anderson, A Dickman… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) iconic biodiversity is of immense potential global value but is
jeopardized by increasing anthropogenic pressures. Elevated consumption in wealthier …

Ecological marginalization is widespread and increases extinction risk in mammals

JA Britnell, Y Zhu, GIH Kerley, S Shultz - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - pnas.org
Human land-use results in widespread range change across taxa. Anthropogenic pressures
can result in species' realized niches expanding, shifting, or contracting. Marginalization …

African savanna raptors show evidence of widespread population collapse and a growing dependence on protected areas

P Shaw, D Ogada, L Dunn, R Buij, A Amar… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The conversion of natural habitats to farmland is a major cause of biodiversity loss and
poses the greatest extinction risk to birds worldwide. Tropical raptors are of particular …

Tradeoffs between resources and risks shape the responses of a large carnivore to human disturbance

KL Mills, JL Belant, M Beukes, E Dröge… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Wide-ranging carnivores experience tradeoffs between dynamic resource availabilities and
heterogeneous risks from humans, with consequences for their ecological function and …

Where have all the lions gone? Establishing realistic baselines to assess decline and recovery of African lions

AJ Loveridge, LL Sousa, S Cushman… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Predict empirically the current and recent historical (c1970) landscape connectivity and
population size of the African lion as a baseline against which to assess conservation of the …

Collaborative management partnerships strongly decreased deforestation in the most at-risk protected areas in Africa since 2000

S Desbureaux, I Kabore, G Vaglietti, M Baghai… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
Collaborative management partnerships (CMPs) between state wildlife authorities and
nonprofit conservation organizations to manage protected areas (PAs) have been used …

A grazer's niche edge is associated with increasing diet diversity and poor population performance

JA Britnell, GIH Kerley, R Antwis, S Shultz - Ecology Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The core‐periphery hypothesis predicts niche cores should be associated with greater
survivorship, reproductive output and population performance rates than marginal habitats …

A sco** review of academic papers on human–lion conflict in Africa

J Abell, D Oldbury‐Thomas… - … Science and Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Adopting a sco** review method, we examined peer‐reviewed academic papers
published about human–lion conflict (HLC)(including coexistence) and identified knowledge …

Co-management brings hope for effective biodiversity conservation and socio-economic development in Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve in Malawi

L Manda, KV Salako, A Kataya… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Co-management has been widely promoted in protected area management on the premise
that it may simultaneously enhance biodiversity conservation outcomes and improve …

[HTML][HTML] Diet responses of two apex carnivores (lions and leopards) to wild prey depletion and livestock availability

RE Forbes, KT Everatt, G Spong, GIH Kerley - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Prey-depletion is a significant threat facing carnivores globally, resulting in reduced
population numbers, diet alterations, and increased livestock consumption, which increases …