Don L Hankins is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography & Planning, California State University, Chico, USA

Christine Eriksen is a social geographer with the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, Australia,

Charles E Kay holds a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and is a senior fellow at the Institute of Political Economy and a senior research scientist at the Centre for Public Lands and Rural Economics, Huntsman School of Business at the Utah State University, USA.

Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao is a David H. Smith Conservation Fellow studying migratory shorebird conservation governance at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington. He is also the vice-president for education and outreach of the Society for Conservation Biology and is an associate editor of Current Conservation

Prashanth N. S. is at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, and a PhD student in public health at Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. He works with the Soligas in BR Hills, Karnataka.

Peter Lindsey is at the Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

K. S. Gopi Sundar is a PhD student in the Conservation Biology Program at the University of Minnesota, USA,
and a Research Associate of the International Crane Foundation, Wisconsin, USA.

Tom Blomley was Senior Adviser to the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism between August 2003 and December 2007. During this time he supported the government to establish a national programme of participatory forest management.

Lucy Hawkes is a post doctoral research officer at Bangor University, UK; she was the Marine Turtle and Climate Change program coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund during the synthesis of this work.

Terre Satterfield is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES).

Joleen Timko is the Managing Director of AFRICAD (the Africa Forests Research Initiative on Conservation and Development) at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry

Alex Flynn is at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Keith Bosak is Assistant Professor of Nature-Based Tourism, Department of Society and Conservation, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.

Kristen Jule is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Exeter, UK.

Ariadne Angulo is currently the Focal Point for the IUCN Red List amphibian database (formerly the Global Amphibian Assessment), and is also the Focal Point for the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group Red List Authority.

Haruka Yanagisawa is Professor at the Chiba University, and Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Alexander Harcourt is at the Department of Anthropology and the Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA.

Matthew Preston is at the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA.

Helle Munk Ravnborg is at the Natural Resources and Poverty Research Unit, Danish Institute for International
Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

G. Cornelis van Kooten is at the Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

Chris Elliott is at the WWF International, Gland, Switzerland.

Gary Bull is at the Department of Forestry, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada.

Jeffrey Sayer is Professor of Development Practice at James Cook University, Cairns, New Queensland, Australia and Science Adviser, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Zoe Young is a freelancer; this study was carried out at the Department of Geography, University of Hull, UK.

Hassan Sachedina is at the Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA.

Annette Lees can be contacted through the Austral Foundation, New Zealand.

Suliana Siwatibau can be contacted through the Austral Foundation, New Zealand.

Katja Neves is an Associate Professor at the Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Saul Cohen is at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.