WildTrace
Answer · for Policy & enforcement, Journalists
How often does a seizure end in a conviction?
In the public record, for every conviction there are about 11 seizures: 1,129 seizures, 509 arrest reports and 103 convictions.
103 convictions in the record
Who answers
- Public reports (WildTrace) 194 official, 315 corroborated, 1,391 single report
What the number cannot tell you
Courts are reported far less than seizures, so part of the drop is a reporting gap, not only attrition.
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Rebuilt daily from the WildTrace data. Cite: Verma, T. K. (2026). WildTrace: the open atlas of illegal wildlife trade. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22902819