← on nowLGR-019 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many trophies are killed every second, every day, every year?
trophies · animals killed for a trophy, traded across borders
trophies taken, all species
170,000
a year
5.39e-3
a second
465
a day
of them, threatened species
20,000
a year
6.34e-4
a second
55
a day
method IFAW 2016 analysis of CITES trade data: hunting trophies traded internationally 2004–2014, annualised; threatened-species share from the same.
- about 8,000 lions live on south african breeding farms, more than twice the country’s wild lions. petted as cubs, walked with as juveniles, shot in enclosures, sold as skeletons. the government voted to end it in 2021. it has not ended.source: Born Free; Four Paws; EMS Foundation; DFFE 2021
- 1.7 million trophies crossed borders in a decade. about one in eight was from a threatened species.source: IFAW 2016; CITES trade database
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=trophies" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · trophies"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- IFAW 2016 analysis of CITES trade data: hunting trophies traded internationally 2004–2014, annualised; threatened-species share from the same.
- range
- 150,000–200,000/yr; threatened 15,000–25,000/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- trade records undercount trophies kept in-country; the lion-farm figures are NGO estimates the south african government has broadly confirmed.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-019 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0