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The Illegal Wildlife Trade is a multibillion-dollar black market. Despite being protected under national laws and international accords, wild cats have increasingly been targeted over the last several decades for their furs, teeth, bones and other body parts, as well as for the live animal trade. The wide-ranging demand for felids is driven by traditional medicines, fashion, decoration, status, the pet trade and more.
While big cats have long been targeted for their skin, bones, fangs and other body parts, poachers are increasingly seeking out small wild cats, including clouded leopards, servals and other small cat species. Cheetahs and fishing cats are also being captured for the illegal pet trade. Panthera is proudly part of the growing movement to end the catastrophic illegal market for wildlife.
Wildlife traffickers spin a vast web of communications and operations, unencumbered by laws or national borders, to poach felids from the wild and sell them and their parts to high-paying customers. In response, Panthera is building a transnational Big Cat Information Network to collect and connect data on the wild cat trade across six regions. In partnership with the United States Department of State and other institutions, we use this data to monitor global threat patterns and assist law enforcement agencies in filling knowledge and capacity gaps in order to disrupt illegal trade. This includes:
Discover how the illegal wildlife trade is threatening leopards, servals, clouded leopards and tigers — and the solutions Panthera is implementing in our blog, Threats and Solutions: The Illegal Wildlife Trade.
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