Hornbills in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 13 cases involving hornbills from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 5 countries. 1 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix I/II. Taxa covered: Rhinoplax vigil, Bucerotidae. 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 hornbills cases are reported
Recent cases
- Seizure · Hornbills, Primates · Bangkok 2026-09-09 · corroborated
- Seizure · Hornbills · location unknown 2026-08-17 · official
- Seizure · Hornbills, Pangolin · Padang 2026-07-31 · corroborated
- Arrest · Hornbills · Philippines 2026-07-08 · single
- Arrest · Hornbills · Margherita 2026-06-28 · corroborated
- Arrest · Hornbills · Indonesia 2026-05-21 · single
- Seizure · Hornbills · Indonesia 2026-05-11 · single
- Seizure · Hornbills · Tanjung 2026-05-06 · single
- Seizure · Hornbills, Primates · Bengaluru 2025-11-12 · single
- Seizure · Hornbills · Batam 2025-10-24 · single
- Seizure · Hornbills · Sarangani 2025-10-01 · single
- Seizure · Hornbills · Sukabumi 2025-03-19 · single
- Arrest · Hornbills · Ganja 2024-10-28 · single
Where seized hornbills came from, and where it was seized
25 shipments of hornbills 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
- Indonesia 7
- Israel 3
- Malaysia 2
- Cameroon 1
- Philippines 1
- Thailand 1
Seized in
- United States 15
- Indonesia 5
- France 2
- Czechia 2
- Hungary 1