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Rhinoceros in the illegal wildlife trade

WildTrace has recorded 45 cases involving rhinoceros from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 11 countries. 9 of them rest on an official or validated source.

CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Rhinoceros unicornis, Rhinoceros sondaicus. 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 rhinoceros cases are reported

Recent cases

Where seized rhinoceros came from, and where it was seized

16 shipments of rhinoceros 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

  • China 14
  • Austria 1
  • France 1

Seized in

  • Hong Kong 14
  • South Africa 2

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