WildTrace
Answer · for Policy & enforcement, Researchers
Where does seized wildlife come from, and where is it caught?
Leaving the United States aside, the busiest seized route is India to China (333 shipments); US-bound routes are 83% of all 24,786 seized shipments reported to CITES.
24,786 seized shipments reported to CITES since 2015
Who answers
- CITES Trade Database seized shipments (source I), reported by governments to UNEP-WCMC
What the number cannot tell you
Countries report seizures unevenly; the United States reports far more completely than most.
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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