Despite best efforts, not all countries release regular data on poaching mortality. The criteria vary from range state to range state, for example, South Africa excludes poaching survivors, survivors who die, unborn calves, orphans, and poached rhinos with intact horns from their accounts, and a margin of error should be expected.
Of the 499 poached rhinos, 406 were killed on state properties and 93 on privately owned parks/reserves/farms. 307 (62.5%) of rhinos were killed within the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park. The full press release can be found here: https://www.dffe.gov.za/mediareleases/creecy_relasesrhinopoachingstats2024feb27
Listed below are only countries and territories involved in 100kg or more of rhino horn seizures as origin, transit or destination, not the entire global rhino horn seizures.
Global seizures 2021: 818kg
Global seizures 2022: 485kg
Global seizures to September 2023: 64kg
Most rhino range states have confiscated, illegal horn stockpiles and, in the case of South Africa and Namibia, which allow private ownership of white rhinos, private rhino horn stockpiles including horns from dehorning and natural deaths.
Unless destroyed or returned to the country of origin, non-range states may also hold stockpiles of confiscated horns.
Few countries report their stockpile inventory publicly, however we do know some based on public data. It was after a PAIA request that South Africa's inventory was made public, and after a proposal to sell Eswatini's inventory at the CITES Conference of Parties that Eswatini's inventory was made public.
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