Lion (bone & parts) in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 1 cases involving lion (bone & parts) 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 II. Taxa covered: Panthera leo. 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 lion (bone & parts) cases are reported
Recent cases
- Seizure · Lion (bone & parts), Rhinoceros, Tiger · 17 horns · location unknown 2025-12-05 · single
Where seized lion (bone & parts) came from, and where it was seized
118 shipments of lion (bone & parts) 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
- South Africa 25
- Peru 8
- Germany 8
- Senegal 5
- Macao 4
- Bahrain 4
- Albania 3
- Ukraine 3
Seized in
- United States 48
- South Africa 29
- The Netherlands 10
- United Arab Emirates 8
- Oman 4
- India 4
- Senegal 3
- Thailand 2
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