About the Authors

Laury Cullen Jr.

laurycullen@gmail.com

Affiliation IPÊ –Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Jessica C. Stanton

Current address: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, U.S. Geological Survey, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Fernando Lima

Affiliations IPÊ –Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista–UNESP, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil

Alexandre Uezu

Affiliation IPÊ –Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Miriam L. L. Perilli

Affiliations Instituto para a Conservação dos Carnívoros Neotropicais–Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa—UFV, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

H. Reşit Akçakaya

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Our initiative was granted by The Rolex Awards, a prize aimed to recognize outstanding conservation initiatives and is not related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, marketed products, etc. Thus, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LC. Data curation: FL. Formal analysis: JCS AU HRA. Funding acquisition: LC. Investigation: LC FL. Methodology: LC JCS FL AU. Project administration: LC. Resources: LC HRA. Software: JCS HRA. Supervision: LC. Visualization: LC JCS FL AU MLLP. Writing – original draft: LC JCS. Writing – review & editing: LC JCS FL AU MLLP HRA.