Sea fan & corals in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 1 cases involving sea fan & corals from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 1 countries. 0 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Gorgonacea, Scleractinia. 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 sea fan & corals cases are reported
- India 1
Recent cases
- Seizure · Sea fan & corals · Vijayawada 2024-06-24 · single
Where seized sea fan & corals came from, and where it was seized
3,321 shipments of sea fan & corals 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
- Indonesia 658
- Vietnam 394
- Bahamas 237
- Mexico 225
- Australia 220
- Tonga 155
- Marshall Islands 153
- Micronesia 144
Seized in
- United States 2,883
- Canada 72
- South Korea 55
- Kuwait 27
- France 26
- Chile 26
- Japan 21
- United Arab Emirates 20