This plan was produced with contributions from the following: Emmanuel K. Alieu (Forestry Division, MANRF, Freetown, Sierra Leone); Pius A. Anadu (British Council, Lagos, Nigeria); Conrad Aveling (ECOFAC, Brazzaville, Congo); Simon K. Bearder (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England); Stephen Blake (Nouabalé-Ndoki Project, Congo); Thomas M. Butynski (Zoo Atlanta Africa Biodiversity Conservation Program, Nairobi, Kenya); Richard Carroll (WWF-US, Washington, D.C., USA); Giuseppe M. Carpaneto (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy); Anthony Collins (Gombe Wildlife Research Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania); A. Glyn Davies (Mount Cameroon Project, Limbe, Cameroon); Mariano Gimenez Dixon (IUCN, Gland, Switzerland); John E. Fa (Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, Trinity, Jersey, C.I.); J. Michael Fay (Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo); Cheryl Fimbel (Wildlife Conservation Society, Cameroon); Barbara Fruth (Max-Planck-Institut, Seewiesen, Germany); Elizabeth L. Gadsby (Pandrillus, Calabar, Nigeria); Anh and Gérard Galat (ORSTOM, Dakar, Senegal); Rebecca Ham (University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland); Jesse C. Hillman (Ministry of Marine Resources, Eritrea); Annie Gautier-Hion (Université de Rennes, Paimpont, France); Spartaco Gippoliti (Rome, Italy); Jefferson Hall (Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA); Alexander H. Harcourt (University of California, Davis, CA, USA); John A. Hart (Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA); Gottfried Hohmann (Max-Planck-Institut, Seewiesen, Germany); Clifford J. Jolly (New York University, New York, NY, USA); Paula Kahumbu (Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Kenya); Kamal Khidas (Université de Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria); Sally Lahm (IRET, Makokou, Gabon); Richard Malenky (New York, NY, USA); Masazumi Mitani (Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan); Russell A. Mittermeier (Conservation International, Washington, D.C., USA); James J. Moore (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA); Toshisada Nishida (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan); Jane E. Phillips-Conroy (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA); Gay Reinartz (Zoological Society of Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, WI, USA); Jordi Sabater-Pi (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain); Thomas T. Struhsaker (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA); Nancy Thompson-Handler (New York, NY, USA); Caroline G. Tutin (SEGC, Lopé Reserve, Gabon); Leonard Usongo (Wildlife Conservation Society, Cameroon); Amy Vedder (Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA); Evelyn O. Vineberg (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA); Samuel K. Wasser (Center for Wildlife Conservation, Seattle, WA, USA); Lee J.T. White (Wildlife Conservation Society, Gabon); Elizabeth A. Williamson (University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland); Richard W. Wrangham (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA); and Juichi Yamagiwa (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan).
We are grateful for the editorial assistance from Carolyn Bocian (CUNY Graduate School, New York, NY, USA) and Laura Robinson (CUNY Graduate School, New York, NY, USA). We also appreciate the contribution from Stephen Nash (Conservation International and SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA), who created the maps.