Jaguar in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 5 cases involving jaguar from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 3 countries. 1 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Panthera onca. 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 jaguar cases are reported
Recent cases
- Seizure · Jaguar · La Paz 2026-08-27 · single
- Seizure · Jaguar · La Paz 2026-08-26 · single
- Seizure · Jaguar · location unknown 2026-04-30 · official
- Seizure · Jaguar · Buenos Aires 2025-08-30 · single
- Seizure · Jaguar · Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2024-05-10 · single
Where seized jaguar came from, and where it was seized
55 shipments of jaguar 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
- Mexico 16
- Peru 14
- Brazil 6
- Bolivia 3
- Colombia 2
- Costa Rica 1
- Panama 1
- Ecuador 1
Seized in
- United States 42
- India 11
- South Africa 1
- Oman 1