Cheetah in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 1 cases involving cheetah from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 0 countries. 0 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Acinonyx jubatus. 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 cheetah cases are reported
Recent cases
- Rescue · Cheetah · location unknown 2025-10-03 · single
Where seized cheetah came from, and where it was seized
37 shipments of cheetah 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
- Somalia 5
- Bahrain 4
- United Arab Emirates 3
- Kenya 1
- Singapore 1
- Australia 1
- Republic of the Congo 1
- Nigeria 1
Seized in
- United Arab Emirates 13
- India 11
- Namibia 5
- United States 4
- France 2
- Oman 1
- South Africa 1