About the Authors

Abishek Harihar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

harihar.abishek@gmail.com (AH); josephvattax@gmail.com (JV)

Current address: Panthera, New York, United States of America; Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Affiliation WWF-Tigers Alive Initiative, New Delhi, India

Pranav Chanchani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-India, New Delhi, India

Jimmy Borah

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Panthera, New York, United States of America

Affiliations WWF-India, Assam, India, WWF-Greater Mekong Program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Rachel Jane Crouthers

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Greater Mekong Program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Yury Darman

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Russia, Amur branch, Vladivostok, Russia

Thomas N. E. Gray

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Wildlife Alliance, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Affiliation WWF-Greater Mekong Program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Shariff Mohamad

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

Benjamin Miles Rawson

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam

Mark Darmaraj Rayan

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations WWF-Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Jennifer Lucy Roberts

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Tigers Alive Initiative, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Robert Steinmetz

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

Sunarto Sunarto

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Febri Anggriawan Widodo

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Indonesia, Central Sumatra Program, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia

Meraj Anwar

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Terai Arc Landscape Office, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India

Shiv Raj Bhatta

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Nepal, Programme Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

Jayam Peter Prem Chakravarthi

Roles Data curation, Validation

Current address: Tamil Nadu Forest Department, Udumalpet, Tamil Nadu, India

Affiliation WWF-India, Western Ghats Nilgiris Landscape Office, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Youde Chang

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-China, Changchun, Jilin Province, P. R. China

Gordon Congdon

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Greater Mekong Program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Chittaranjan Dave

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Satpura Maikal Landscape Office, Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, India

Soumen Dey

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Satpura Maikal Landscape Office, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

Boominathan Durairaj

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Western Ghats Nilgiris Landscape Office, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Pavel Fomenko

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Russia, Amur branch, Vladivostok, Russia

Harish Guleria

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Terai Arc Landscape Office, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India

Mudit Gupta

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India Terai Arc Landscape Office, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ghana Gurung

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Nepal, Programme Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

Bopanna Ittira

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Programme Office, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Jyotirmay Jena

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Satpura Maikal Landscape Office, Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, India

Alexey Kostyria

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Russia, Amur branch, Vladivostok, Russia

Krishna Kumar

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Western Ghats Nilgiris Landscape Office, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Vijay Kumar

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Western Ghats Nilgiris Landscape Office, Bhavanisagar, Tamil Nadu, India

Phurba Lhendup

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Bhutan, Program Office, Thimphu, Bhutan

Peiqi Liu

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-China, Changchun, Jilin Province, P. R. China

Sabita Malla

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Nepal, Programme Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kamlesh Maurya

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India Terai Arc Landscape Office, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, India

Vijay Moktan

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Bhutan, Program Office, Thimphu, Bhutan

Nguyen Dao Ngoc Van

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam

Karmila Parakkasi

Roles Data curation, Validation

Current address: PT. Royal Lestari Utama, Jakarta, Indonesia

Affiliation WWF-Tigers Alive Initiative, Jakarta, Indonesia

Rungnapa Phoonjampa

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

Worrapan Phumanee

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

Anil Kumar Singh

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Programme Office, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Carrie Stengel

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation WWF-Tigers Alive Initiative, Washington-D.C., United States of America

Samundra Ambuhang Subba

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Nepal, Programme Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kanchan Thapa

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Nepal, Programme Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tiju C. Thomas

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-India, Western Ghats Nilgiris Landscape Office, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Christopher Wong

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation WWF-Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

Michael Baltzer

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-Tigers Alive Initiative, Singapore

Dipankar Ghose

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-India, New Delhi, India

Sejal Worah

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WWF-India, New Delhi, India

Joseph Vattakaven

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

harihar.abishek@gmail.com (AH); josephvattax@gmail.com (JV)

Affiliation WWF-Tigers Alive Initiative, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Author KP was affiliated to PT. Royal Lestari Utama during the course of the study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.