Prioritizing core areas, corridors and conflict hotspots for lion conservation in southern Africa.

Conservation of large carnivores, such as the African lion, requires preservation of extensive core habitat areas, linkages between them, and mitigation of human-wildlife conflict. However, there are few rigorous examples of efforts that prioritized conservation actions for all three of these critic...

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Main Authors: Samuel A Cushman, Nicholas B Elliot, Dominik Bauer, Kristina Kesch, Laila Bahaa-El-Din, Helen Bothwell, Michael Flyman, Godfrey Mtare, David W Macdonald, Andrew J Loveridge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6033387?pdf=render