Bears in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 2 cases involving bears from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 2 countries. 0 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Melursus ursinus, Helarctos malayanus, Ursus thibetanus. Counts show where this trade is reported, not where it happens: reporting is uneven between countries and languages, and cases whose reports name no place are counted but cannot be mapped.
Where bears cases are reported
Recent cases
- Seizure · Bears · Dublin 2025-12-16 · corroborated
- Seizure · Bears · Washington 2025-09-16 · corroborated
Where seized bears came from, and where it was seized
129 shipments of bears seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.
Taken from
- Vietnam 47
- China 16
- Laos 5
- Thailand 4
- India 3
- Cambodia 2
- Japan 1
- Hong Kong 1
Seized in
- United States 125
- United Kingdom 2
- India 1
- Germany 1