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.

Liza Grandia is Assistant Professor at Clark University’s Department of International Development, Community and Environment, Worcester, USA.

Hanne Svarstad is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway.

Tor A. Benjaminsen is a Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies – Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.

Sian Sullivan is at the School of Geography, Environment & Development Studies, Birkbeck College, London, UK.

Jim Igoe is at the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA.

Nathan Brouwer is a PhD student at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Terence Dawson is at the School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Jane Carter Ingram is at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA.

Bidhan Kanti Das is Lecturer in Anthropology at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Calcutta University Alipore Campus, Kolkata, India.

Jessica Rogers is at the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, USA.

A. Bennett Hennessey is at the Armonia/BirdLife International, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Vaqar Zakaria is Director, Environment & Wildlife at the Himalayan Wildlife Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Jon E. Swenson is a professor at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.

Muhammad Ali Nawaz is the Country Director of the Snow Leopard Trust, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mark Reed is Senior Lecturer at Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Centre for Planning and Environmental Management, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen.

José Alexandre F. Diniz Filho is a Professors of Ecology and Evolution at the Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil.