Conserving the World’s Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

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Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society Oregon State UniversityDesert Ecology Research Group of the School of Biological Sciences University of SydneyCentre for Integrative Ecology School of Life and Environmental Sciences Deakin UniversitySchool of Environmental and Forest Sciences University of WashingtonDepartment of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesResearch Unit of Biodiversity Oviedo UniversityInstitute of Zoology Zoological Society of LondonWildlife Conservation Research Unit of the Department of Zoology University of Oxford and the Recanati-Kaplan CentrePantheraDepartment of Zoology and Entomology University of PretoriaSchool of Life Sciences University of KwaZulu-NatalWildlife Conservation Society New YorkSchool of Natural Sciences University of StirlingIUCN Species Survival Commission's African Elephant Specialist IUCN Eastern and Southern African Regional OfficeSchool of Environment and Natural Resources Ohio State UniversitySchool of Geography School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences University of Nottingham Malaysia CampusCenter for Integrative Conservation of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of SciencesDepartment of Geography University of Victoria and the Raincoast Conservation FoundationDepartment of Biology at Stanford UniversityDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of CaliforniaCentre for African Conservation Ecology Nelson Mandela UniversitySchool of Biological Science and the School of Environment Natural Resources Geography at Bangor UniversityCentre for Wildlife Management University of PretoriaDepartamento de Ecologia Universidade Estadual PaulistaDepartment of Bioscience Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Aarhus UniversityWildlife Conservation Society India ProgramInternational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival CommissionCentre for Ecosystem Science University of New South WalesDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Oregon State UniversityWorld Wildlife Fund-USDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton UniversitySchool of Life Sciences University of SussexNicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Duke UniversityNelson Institute for Environmental Studies University of WisconsinSchool of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Michigan Technological UniversityCentre for Compassionate Conservation School of Life Sciences University of TechnologyInstitute of Ecology Beijing Normal UniversityDepartamento de Ecologia Universidade Estadual Paulist