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    African Parks. 2016. African Parks annual report 2015: Conservation at scale (Johannesburg: African Parks). https://www.africanparks.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/2017-05/APN_AnnualReport_2015.pdf

    Amano, T., T. Székely, B. Sandel, et al. 2018. Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance. Nature 553: 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25139

    Balmford, A., J.L. Moore, T. Brooks, et al. 2011. Conservation conflicts across Africa. Science 291: 2616–19. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.291.5513.2616

    Beale, C.M. 2018. Trends and themes in African ornithology. Ostrich 89: 99–108. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2017.1407834

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    Booth, V.R., and K.M. Dunham. 2016. Elephant poaching in Niassa Reserve, Mozambique: Population impact revealed by combined survey trends for live elephants and carcasses. Oryx 50: 94–103. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605314000568

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    Brito, J.C., S.M. Durant, N. Pettorelli, et al., 2018. Armed conflicts and wildlife decline: Challenges and recommendations for effective conservation policy in the SaharaSahel. Conservation Letters 11: e12446. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12446

    Brugiere, D., and R. Kormos. 2009. Review of the protected area network in Guinea, West Africa, and recommendations for new sites for biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 18: 847–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9508-z

    Buffenstein, R., and S. Yahav. 1991. Is the naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber an endothermic yet poikilothermic? Journal of Thermal Biology 16: 227–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4565(91)90030-6

    Burgess, N., J.D. Hales, E. Underwood, et al. 2004. Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment (Washington: Island Press).

    Canney, S., and N. Ganamé. 2015. The Mali elephant project, Mali. In: Conservation, Crime and Communities: Case Studies of Efforts to Engage Local Communities in Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade, ed. by D. Roe (London: IIED). http://pubs.iied.org/14648IIED/

    Chinsembu, K.C. 2015. Plants as antimalarial agents in Sub-Saharan Africa. Acta Tropica 152: 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.08.009

    Christy, B., and B. Stirton. 2015. How killing elephants finances terror in Africa. National Geographic. http://on.natgeo.com/1I5N2aO.

    Cioc, M. 2009. The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals (Columbus: Ohio University Press).

    Clements, H., J. Baum, and G.S. Cumming. 2016. Money and motives: An organizational ecology perspective on private land conservation. Biological Conservation 197: 108–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.03.002

    Cooney, R., C. Freese, H. Dublin, et al. 2017. The baby and the bathwater: Trophy hunting, conservation and rural livelihoods. Unasylva 249: 3–16. http://www.fao.org/3/i6855en/I6855EN.pdf

    Cooney, R., D. Roe, H. Dublin, et al. 2017. From poachers to protectors: Engaging local communities in solutions to illegal wildlife trade. Conservation Letters 10: 368–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12294

    Cresswell, W. 2018. The continuing lack of ornithological research capacity in almost all of West Africa. Ostrich 89: 123–29. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2017.1388301

    Cross, H. 2015. Displacement, disempowerment and corruption: challenges at the interface of fisheries, management and conservation in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau. Oryx 50: 693–701. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003060531500040X

    Cumming, D.H.M., M.B. Fenton, I.L. Rautenbach, et al. 1997. Elephants, woodlands and biodiversity in southern Africa. South African Journal of Science 93: 231–36

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    de Vos, A., H.S. Clements, D. Biggs, et al. 2019. The dynamics of proclaimed privately protected areas in South Africa over 83 years. Conservation Letters 12: e12644. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12644

    Dickman, A., P.J. Johnson, F. van Kesteren, et al. 2015. The moral basis for conservation: How is it affected by culture? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 325–31. https://doi.org/10.1890/140056

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    Foley, J.A., M.T. Coe, M. Scheffer, et al. 2003. Regime shifts in the Sahara and Sahel: Interactions between ecological and climatic systems in Northern Africa. Ecosystems 6: 524–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-002-0227-0

    Geisler, C., and R. de Sousa. 2001. From refuge to refugee: the African case. Public Administration and Development 21: 159–70. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.158

    Gill, D.A., M.B. Mascia, G.N. Ahmadia, et al. 2017. Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally. Nature 543: 665–69. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21708

    Gorenflo, L.J., S. Romaine, R.A. Mittermeier, et al. 2012. Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 8032–37. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117511109

    Hance, J. 2018. Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits. Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/trumps-elephant-lion-trophy-hunting-policy-hit-with-double-lawsuits.

    Hauenstein, S., M. Kshatriya, J. Blanc, et al. 2019. African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price. Nature Communications 10: 2242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09993-2

    Hsiang, S., and N. Sekar. 2016. Does legalization reduce black market activity? Evidence from a global ivory experiment and elephant poaching data. NBER Working Paper 22314 (Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research). https://doi.org/10.3386/w22314

    Ijang, T.P., N. Cleto, N.W. Ewane, et al. 2012. Transboundary dialogue and cooperation: First lessons from igniting negotiations on joint management of the Mayombe Forest in the Congo Basin. International Journal of Agriculture and Forestry 2: 121–31. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.ijaf.20120203.08

    IUCN. 2004. An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Gland: IUCN). https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/EPLP-056-rev.pdf

    IUCN. 2019. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. http://www.iucnredlist.org

    IUCN/PACO. 2009. Big game hunting in West Africa. What is its contribution to conservation? (Ouagadougou: IUCN/PACO). https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2009-074-En.pdf

    Jarvis, J.U.M., M.J. O’Riain, N.C. Bennett, et al. 1994. Mammalian eusociality: A family affair. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 47–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(94)90267-4

    Juhé-Beaulaton, D., and B. Roussel. 2002. Les sites religieux vodun, des patrimoines en permanente evolution. In: Patrimonialiser la nature tropicale: Dynamiques locales, enjeux internationaux, ed. by M.-C. Cormier-Salem et al. (Paris: IRD). http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers09-03/010028405.pdf

    Kalpers, J., E.A. Williamson, M.M. Robbins, et al. 2003. Gorillas in the crossfire: Population dynamics of the Virunga mountain gorillas over the past three decades. Oryx 37: 326–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605303000589

    King, J., A. Wandera, M.I. Sheikh, et al. 2016. Status of Hirola in Ishaqbini Community Conservancy (Masalani: Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy; Northern Rangelands Trust). https://nrt-kenya.squarespace.com/s/Hirola-sanctuary-status-report-May2016-mjwy.pdf

    Klopper, R.R., L. Gautier, C. Chatelain, et al. 2007. Floristics of the angiosperm flora of Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of the African Plant Checklist and Database. Taxon 56: 201–08.

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