About the Authors

Dibesh Karmacharya

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

dibesh@cmdn.org

Affiliations Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Adarsh M. Sherchan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Santosh Dulal

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Prajwol Manandhar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sulochana Manandhar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Jyoti Joshi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Susmita Bhattarai

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tarka R. Bhatta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Nagendra Awasthi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ajay N. Sharma

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Manisha Bista

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, Thapathali-11, Kathmandu, Nepal

Nawa R. Silwal

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), Pillar 4, Nepal Police, Kathmandu, Nepal

Pravin Pokharel

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), Pillar 4, Nepal Police, Kathmandu, Nepal

Rom R. Lamichhane

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Bio-Diversity Section, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal

Netra Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Environment Team, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Kathmandu, Nepal

Bronwyn Llewellyn

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Environment Team, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Kathmandu, Nepal

Claudia Wultsch

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Natural History Museum, New York, New York, United States of America

Marcella J. Kelly

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Digpal Gour

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Ecological, Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Lisette Waits

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Ecological, Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Jean-Marc Hero

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Jane Hughes

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.