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. 2015 Apr 10;10(4):e0123100. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123100

Table 1. Country size, CITES quota size and mean trophy exports for the 2006–2010 period obtained from the CITES database.

Country Country size (km2) Quota 5 year mean export
Botswana 600 370 130 44 ± 6.69
Central African Republic 622 984 40 23.6 ± 6.67
Ethiopia £ 1 127 127 500 0 £
Kenya $ 582 650 80 0 $
Malawi* 118 480 50 0*
Mozambique 801 590 120 37 ± 2.81
Namibia 825 418 250 197.4 ± 32.46
South Africa 1 219 912 150 114.2 ± 11.73
Tanzania 945 203 500 280.4 ± 28.18
Zambia 752 614 300 68.8 ± 6.21
Zimbabwe 390 580 500 251.4 ± 11.72
Uganda 236 040 28 1 ± 1

£ Ethiopia has no records of exports/imports in the CITES database and at present leopards are not hunted there (Hans Bauer, personal.communication).

$ Kenya allow the export of leopard body parts but trophy hunting was outlawed in 1977.

*There were no leopard export records found in the CITES database for the 2006–2010 period in Malawi.