Box 1.1 Conservation Through Public Health: A Case Study 5
Box 1.2 The Okapi Wildlife Reserve: Protecting Nature and Providing for People 14
Box 1.3 Biodiversity: Can Humanity be Saved? 17
Box 2.1 Sacred Spaces: A Tradition of Forest Conservation in Benin 30
Box 2.2 Why Go Transfrontier? (And Why Not?) 38
Box 2.3 Privately Owned Lands for African Conservation 40
Box 2.4 Malawi: No Longer a Weak Link in the Elephant Ivory Trafficking Chain? 48
Box 3.1 Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Monitoring Species Using eDNA 66
Box 3.2 Golden Mole Conservation Requires a Sound Taxonomy 74
Box 3.3 Does Tardy Recognition of a Species Hamper its Conservation? 78
Box 4.1 Research on Hunting Underpins Conservation in Central Africa 94
Box 4.2 Are Wild Pollinators Important in African Agriculture? 103
Box 4.3 Biological Control Saves the Cassava Crop 107
Box 4.4 Conservation Lessons from the Asian and African Vulture Crises 110
Box 5.1 The Importance of Liberia’s Forest Network to the Survival of the Pygmy Hippopotamus 136
Box 5.2 The Conservation and Exploitation of East African Plants 146
Box 5.3 Migratory Birds of Africa: The Largest of the Last Great Migrations? 150
Box 5.4 Saving Critically Endangered Ground Nesting Birds from Habitat Loss 153
Box 6.1 Does Oil Palm Agriculture Threaten Biological Diversity in Equatorial Africa? 170
Box 6.2 Desert Birds and Climate Change 179
Box 6.3 Habitat Alteration, Climate Change, and Mosquito-Borne Diseases 190
Box 7.1 Solving Seabird Bycatch Problems: From Theory to Practice 221
Box 7.2 Conserving Elephants in the Anthropocene 227
Box 7.3 Aliens on Islands: Damage and Control 233
Box 7.4 Promoting African and Global Honeybee Health 238
Box 8.1 Pleistocene Extinctions: Climate Change, Hominin Predation, or Both? 263
Box 8.3 Fenced Reserves Conserving Cheetahs and African Wild Dogs in South Africa 286
Box 9.1 The Role of Biodiversity Inventories in the Management of Gorongosa National Park 300
Box 9.2 Sea Turtle Conservation along Africa’s Atlantic Coast 303
Box 9.3 Sustainably Harvesting Fruit Bats Through Better Understanding of Life Histories 315
Box 10.1 Using Insects to Monitor Environmental Health 331
Box 10.2 Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis for African Conservation 335
Box 10.3 Environmental Governance in the Serengeti Ecosystem 351
Box 10.4 Sustainable Forest Restoration Using Natural Vegetation 357
Box 11.1 The Overlooked Role of Behavioural Ecology in the Conservation of African Mammals 378
Box 11.2 Large Predator Reintroductions: A Balancing Act 389
Box 11.3 Transfrontier Conservation Areas: Managing Biodiversity Across International Boundaries 398
Box 11.4 Saving the Northern White Rhinoceros with Assisted Reproduction Technologies 414
Box 12.1 Insect Biodiversity Helps Solve African Wildlife Crimes 442
Box 12.2 Protecting Elephants in a Hostile Region 444
Box 12.3 Thoughts on Poaching and Illegal Wildlife Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa 453
Box 13.1 Mpala Research Centre: A Living Laboratory for (More than Just) Scientists 467
Box 13.2 Identifying Key Sites for Conservation in the Albertine Rift 475
Box 13.3 Marine Protected Areas in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean 481
Box 13.4 Zoning: Something for Everyone in the Forests of Dzangha-Sangha 487
Box 14.1 Traditional People and Conservation: Turning the Page 517
Box 14.2 Importance of Protected Areas in Cities: Insights from the City of Cape Town 523
Box 14.3 Preserving Biodiversity Through Shaded Agroforestry 528
Box 14.4 Confronting Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zimbabwe 537
Box 15.1 Not Just for War: Drones in Conservation 559
Box 15.2 Supporting Self-Organised Action for Conservation in Africa 565
Box 15.3 Tracking Species in Space and Time: Citizen Science in Africa 570
Box 15.4 The Contribution of Education Towards Conservation in Africa 576