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Leopard in the illegal wildlife trade

WildTrace has recorded 34 cases involving leopard from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 1 countries. 4 of them rest on an official or validated source.

CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Panthera pardus, Neofelis nebulosa. 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 leopard cases are reported

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Where seized leopard came from, and where it was seized

164 shipments of leopard 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

  • Tanzania 10
  • Senegal 10
  • Mozambique 9
  • South Africa 8
  • Namibia 5
  • Somalia 5
  • Nigeria 4
  • Zambia 4

Seized in

  • United States 111
  • Senegal 11
  • Eswatini 8
  • Ivory Coast 6
  • South Africa 6
  • Namibia 5
  • Oman 4
  • Ghana 3

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