Kamaljit S Bawa is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation and Society and coauthor of Sahyadris: India’s Western Ghats. His research interests include population biology, land use and land cover change, community-based conservation, and institutions for conservation and sustainable development. Richard B Primack, Professor, Department of Biology at Boston University, is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Conservation and was President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. He wrote two leading textbooks: Essentials of Conservation Biology and A Primer of Conservation Biology. Dr. Primack''s research interests include the biological impacts of climate change, the loss of species in protected areas, tropical forest ecology and conservation, and conservation education. Meera Anna Oommen is an ecologist and a founding trustee of Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore. She has held senior editorial positions with several conservation journals including Conservation and Society and Current Conservation. Her research interests include macroecology and biogeography of the Himalaya as well as conservation interventions relating to reconciliation ecology in human dominated landscapes in the Western Ghats.