Owls in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 3 cases involving owls from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 2 countries. 1 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Strigiformes. 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 owls cases are reported
Recent cases
- Arrest · Owls · location unknown 2026-08-27 · single
- Arrest · Owls · Agra 2026-08-27 · single
- Rescue · Parrots & songbirds, Owls · Santiago del Estero 2025-01-28 · official
Where seized owls came from, and where it was seized
250 shipments of owls 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 52
- Canada 33
- United States 20
- Guatemala 9
- United Kingdom 7
- South Africa 4
- The Netherlands 3
- Cuba 3
Seized in
- United States 236
- Germany 8
- Monaco 2
- France 2
- Russia 1
- Canada 1