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 |
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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.