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Tiger in the illegal wildlife trade

WildTrace has recorded 22 cases involving tiger from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 2 countries. 2 of them rest on an official or validated source.

CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Panthera tigris. 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 tiger cases are reported

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Where seized tiger came from, and where it was seized

234 shipments of tiger 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

  • Vietnam 57
  • Thailand 9
  • China 7
  • Germany 6
  • Mexico 5
  • India 5
  • Cambodia 4
  • Canada 4

Seized in

  • United States 205
  • The Netherlands 8
  • South Africa 4
  • Oman 3
  • United Kingdom 3
  • Jordan 3
  • XX 2
  • France 2

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