Creating Larger and Better Connected Protected Areas Enhances the Persistence of Big Game Species in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Biodiversity Hotspot

• Enrico Di Minin ,

  * E-mail: enrico.di.minin@helsinki.fi

  Affiliations Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Metapopulation Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Luke T. B. Hunter,

  Affiliations Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Guy A. Balme,

  Affiliations Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Robert J. Smith,

  Affiliation Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

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• Peter S. Goodman,

  Affiliation Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, Cascades, South Africa

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• Rob Slotow

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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