Red sanders in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 51 cases involving red sanders from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 1 countries. 1 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Pterocarpus santalinus. 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 red sanders cases are reported
- India 34
Recent cases
- Seizure · Red sanders · 350 kg · Tiruvannamalai 2026-09-22 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders, Sandalwood · 20 logs · Nellore 2026-09-04 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · Tirupati 2026-08-20 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · Arakkonam 2026-07-30 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · location unknown 2026-07-23 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · 365 kg · Delhi 2026-07-16 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · 11 logs · Tirupati 2026-07-14 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · Kalyān 2026-06-26 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · 108 logs · Anantapur 2026-06-25 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · 400 kg · Chennai 2026-04-28 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders, Sandalwood · 285 kgs · location unknown 2026-03-25 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · 195 logs · Karnataka 2026-03-02 · corroborated
- Seizure · Red sanders · location unknown 2026-02-24 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · location unknown 2026-02-24 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · Tirupati 2026-02-18 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · 72 logs · location unknown 2026-02-11 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · 72 logs · location unknown 2026-02-11 · single
- Conviction · Red sanders · location unknown 2026-01-30 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders, Sandalwood · Andhra Pradesh 2026-01-29 · single
- Arrest · Red sanders, Sandalwood · location unknown 2026-01-10 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · Tirupati 2025-12-28 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · Chennai 2025-12-14 · official
- Seizure · Red sanders · Karnataka 2025-12-05 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders, Sandalwood · Bengaluru 2025-12-04 · single
- Seizure · Red sanders · location unknown 2025-11-14 · single
Where seized red sanders came from, and where it was seized
438 shipments of red sanders 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
- India 432
- Sri Lanka 1
Seized in
- China 318
- Hong Kong 97
- Singapore 14
- United Arab Emirates 4
- United States 3
- Germany 1
- Japan 1