Table 3. Number and proportion of wild-sourced and captive-bred lion bodies and skeletons originating in South Africa listed on issued CITES permits and destined for East-Southeast Asia from 2008–2015.
Wild-sourced (W) a,b | Captive-bred (C) | Other c | Total | |
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Skeletons | 315 (6%) | 4981 (94%) | 20 (0.4%) | 5316 |
Bodies | 71 (30%) | 164 (69%) | 1 (0.4%) | 236 |
a Figures for wild-sourced lion skeletons and bodies from South Africa are elevated to an unknown degree due to a misinterpretation prior to 2012 of the meaning of ‘wild’
b Excluded from the wild-sourced column are 47 skeletons from Namibia and 5 bodies (from Namibia, Tanzania or Zimbabwe)
c 20 Unknown (U); 1 Ranched (R)