About the Authors

Saroj Panthi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mountsaroj@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Forests, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Gopal Khanal

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

Affiliations Post-Graduate Programme in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, National Centre for Biological Sciences (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Bangalore, India, Centre for Ecological Studies, Lalitpur, Nepal

Krishna Prasad Acharya

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

Affiliation Department of Forests, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Achyut Aryal

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

Affiliations Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Department of Forest and Resource Management, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand, Faculty of Science and Technology, Federation University Australia, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Victoria, Australia, Human-Wildlife Interaction Research Group, Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

Arjun Srivathsa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have no competing of interest.