Localization

Western Africa

Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Extinct in Nigeria

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Threats

• Annual and perennial non-timber crops

• Mining and quarrying

• Hunting and trapping terrestrial animals

• Logging and wood harvesting

• War

• Civil unrest

• Military exercises

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Population

Decreasing populations, ​fragmented, 2000 to 2499 individuals

I.U.C.N. : E.N. - Endangered

C.I.T.E.S : Appendix II

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Trade

Opportunistical bushmeat and commercial hunting.​​

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European Union :

• ​Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/966 of 15 May 2023

Pygmy hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis) listed at the Annex B (Appendix II)  :

• The Appendix II includes species not necessarily threatened with extinction, but in which trade must be controlled to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival.

• Annex A includes:

  • All CITES Appendix I species, except where EU Member States have entered a reservation

  • Some CITES Appendix II and III species, for which the EU has adopted stricter domestic measures

  • Some non-CITES species

• Annex B includes:

  • All other CITES Appendix II species, except where EU Member States have entered a reservation

  • Some CITES Appendix III species

  • Some non-CITES species

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Guinea :

• NOTIFICATION TO THE PARTIES No. 2023/128 CONCERNING: Geneva, 23 November 2023 APPLICATION OF ARTICLE XIII IN GUINEA

All commercial trade in specimens of CITES-listed species are suspended.​​

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Liberia :

• CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA NOTIFICATION TO THE PARTIES No. 2018/012 CONCERNING: LIBERIA Geneva, 22 January 2018 Maintenance of a recommendation to suspend trade

All commercial trade in specimens of CITES-listed species are suspended.

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Nigeria :

SHORT SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS OF THE 77TH MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVIEW GROUP ON TRADE IN WILD FAUNA AND FLORA1 7 NOVEMBER 2016

No opinion for import of specimens of the following species / countries combinations

All applications to be referred to SRG: The species is not currently (or is only rarely) in trade, but significant trade in relation to the conservation status of the species could be anticipated.

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References :

Choeropsis liberiensis (Pygmy Hippopotamus) (iucnredlist.org)  (included Dufour. 2002. Premier recensement des activités cynégétiques en Forêt Classée de Diécké. MAE / DNEF - CFZ / PGRR.)

Letter template (cites.org)

Notification to the Parties No. 2017/ (cites.org)

Publications Office (europa.eu)

Wildlife trade - European Commission (europa.eu)

​77_summary_srg.pdf (europa.eu)