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Lynx canadensis
Canada Lynx · Kerr, 1792
- Red List, global
- LC
- Least Concern, 2025
- First CITES listing
- II
- Appendix II, 1977
- CITES trade records
- 23,230
- 1977–2024 · exporter-reported
- Unit dimensions
- 5
- reported separately, never summed
- NAMMCO catch entries
- none
- NAMMCO reports a subset of marine mammals
- Seizure records
- 20
- reported taxon matches
One of 43: each square a species, coloured by its latest global Red List category, this one ringed. Canada Lynx is among the other mammals.
In summary derived
Lynx canadensis, Canada Lynx, is placed in family Felidae, order Carnivora, class Mammalia. The earliest CITES listing row the corpus holds for it is Appendix II, dated 1977. The corpus records 1 dated listing row in total.
Its latest global Red List assessment is Least Concern, published 2025. It carries 5 earlier global assessments on the current scale and 1 on a scale that was superseded before the current categories and cannot be compared with them.
The corpus holds 23,230 exporter-reported CITES trade records for it, from 1977 to 2024, reported across 5 unit dimensions. The most frequently recorded term is skins: 12,384 records across 3 unit dimensions, of which 12,362 are measured in specimens. The corpus holds no NAMMCO catch records for it. 20 seizure records are attributed to it, being those whose reported taxon matches the species.
Composed from 16 corpus fields, by template, with no model
species.classspecies.familyspecies.order_namespecies_catch.catch_totalspecies_iucn.is_globalspecies_iucn.statusspecies_iucn.year_publishedspecies_listing.appendixspecies_listing.listing_datespecies_seizure.*species_trade.dimensionspecies_trade.first_yearspecies_trade.last_yearspecies_trade.record_countspecies_trade.reporter_typespecies_trade.term
Each sentence is generated from the columns above and nothing else. The same corpus produces the same text every time. Where a field is absent the sentence is omitted rather than hedged.
Overview curated
Taxonomy entered by a named curator and versioned in the repository.
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Felidae
- First CITES listing
- 1977
- Global Red List status
- LCLeast Concern, assessed 2025
8 narrative sections for this species were machine-drafted and are not shown. No subject expert has reviewed and signed them.
Trade derived
CITES Trade Database v2025.1, extracted 13 June 2025.
Quantities are reported per unit dimension, per traded term, and per reporting side. These are not additive: kilograms and individual animals have no common unit, a live animal is not a carving, and an importer report and an exporter report are two accounts of one shipment rather than two shipments.
Figures below are exporter-reported.
- count in specimens
- 23,030 records, 99%
- mass in kg
- 134 records, <1%
- area in m²
- 49 records, <1%
- packaging in containers
- 14 records, <1%
- volume in L
- 3 records, <1%
Records per dimension. Not additive across units.
Trade over time
count measured in specimens
23,030 of 23,230 records carry a quantity in specimens. CITES leaves the unit blank to mean a count of the term.
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| skins | 491,026 specimens | 10,869 | 1990– | W |
| garments | 24,085 specimens | 4,327 | 1990– | W |
| skulls | 3,384 specimens | 1,748 | 1991– | W |
| garments | 26,220 specimens | 1,512 | 1977– | not recorded |
| skins | 277,398 specimens | 1,377 | 1977– | not recorded |
| bodies | 4,044 specimens | 1,175 | 1991– | W |
| trophies | 406 specimens | 270 | 1991– | W |
| leather products (small) | 2,169 specimens | 238 | 2000– | W |
| live | 293 specimens | 112 | 1991– | W |
| leather items | 200 specimens | 101 | 1991– | W |
| skin pieces | 1,357 specimens | 98 | 1990– | W |
| live | 314 specimens | 94 | 1977– | C |
Showing the 12 term and source combinations with the most records, of 92.
4 smaller units: kg (134 records), m² (49 records), containers (14 records), L (3 records)
mass measured in kg
134 of 23,230 records carry a quantity in kg.
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| skin pieces | 3,202.51 kg | 38 | 1991– | W |
| skin pieces | 12,617.88 kg | 35 | 1977– | not recorded |
| skin scraps | 10,575.95 kg | 21 | 1980– | not recorded |
| skins | 3,114.17 kg | 20 | 1982– | not recorded |
| meat | 24.02 kg | 6 | 1996– | W |
| skin pieces | 1,202 kg | 3 | 1993 | U |
| specimens | 0.04 kg | 3 | 2004 | W |
| plates | 725 kg | 2 | 1986– | not recorded |
| unspecified | 80 kg | 1 | 1986 | not recorded |
| meat | 9 kg | 1 | 1985 | not recorded |
| plates | 36 kg | 1 | 2000 | I |
| skins | 1 kg | 1 | 2000 | W |
Showing the 12 term and source combinations with the most records, of 14.
area measured in m²
49 of 23,230 records carry a quantity in m². Area is the surface of the item traded as the Party reported it, for example a skin sample in square centimetres; every area unit is converted to m².
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| plates | 462.79 m² | 46 | 2015– | W |
| plates | 56.53 m² | 3 | 2011– | not recorded |
packaging measured in containers
14 of 23,230 records carry a quantity in containers.
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| leather products (small) | 19 containers | 5 | 2002– | W |
| specimens | 95 containers | 5 | 2000– | W |
| specimens | 4 containers | 2 | 1988 | not recorded |
| skins | 1 container | 1 | 1982 | not recorded |
| teeth | 1 container | 1 | 1993 | W |
volume measured in L
3 of 23,230 records carry a quantity in L.
| Term | Quantity | Records | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| specimens | 0.00400 L | 2 | 2023 | F |
| specimens | 0.00400 L | 1 | 2003 | W |
CITES listings curated
CoP decisions, cross-checked against the appendix reported on trade records.
| Date | Appendix | Annotation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-02-04 | II | [FAMILY listing Felidae spp.] Included in Appendix II, except for the species included in Appendix I. Specimens of the domesticated form are not subject to the provisions of the Convention. | first listing |
IUCN Red List derived
Assessment history. Scope is always stated: a regional assessment is not the species status.
Categories from before 2001 come from earlier Red List systems. Three kinds are kept apart.
LR/lc and LR/nt are the modern LC and NT under their old names, so they are plotted as those categories and the line runs through them: nothing changed but the wording.
LR/cd was discontinued with no successor. This project reads it as Near Threatened, following a published crosswalk between the old and new Red List systems, and the chart marks such a point hollow and names both codes, because placing a category is not the same as finding it published.
The pre-1994 codes (E, V, K, T and the rest) are not on the risk order at all, so they sit below the axis and the line breaks across them. A category change across a criteria revision is not a change in extinction risk, and none of these is scored as a movement: the ledger refuses every one of them at gate 3.
- published global assessment
Category movement since listing: not scored. Gate 3: the baseline category LR/lc comes from a pre-2001 Red List system and is not on the modern ordinal scale. How this is defined and why some species are not scored
| Year | Category | Meaning | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | LC | Least Concern | Global | current for this scope |
| 2016 | LC | Least Concern | Global | |
| 2015 | LC | Least Concern | Global | |
| 2015 | LC | Least Concern | Global | a republished version of the 2015 assessment |
| 2008 | LC | Least Concern | Global | |
| 2002 | LC | Least Concern | Global | |
| 1996 | LR/lc | Lower Risk, least concern (1994 system) | Global |
Reported catch derived
NAMMCO catch exports dated 11 June 2025. A reported zero is stored as zero, distinct from an unknown.
No NAMMCO catch records for this species. NAMMCO reports on a subset of marine mammals, so an absence here is expected for most species and does not mean no catch occurred.
Illegal trade seizures derived
Seizure records whose reported taxon resolves to this species.
20 seizure records name this species, 1 of it under another name that resolves to it (a published synonym, a gendered variant of the epithet, or a subspecies). Matching is on the taxon the source reported, case aside, and each record below shows the reported name, so a match that is not literal can be seen for what it is. Across the whole compilation, 225 of 919 rows match one of the 43 species and the rest name other taxa.
Quantities are unitless. The source gives no date or place, so the table shows the product and the reported taxon.
| Product | Reported as |
|---|---|
| claw | Lynx canadensis |
| dead animal | Lynx canadensis |
| dead animal | Lynx canadensis |
| garment | lynx canadensis |
| garment | Lynx canadensis |
| hair | lynx canadensis |
| hair | Lynx canadensis |
| live | Lynx canadensis |
| skin | Lynx canadensis |
| skin | Lynx canadensis |
| skin | lynx canadensis |
| skin | Lynx lynx canadensis |
| skin piece | Lynx canadensis |
| skin piece | lynx canadensis |
| skull | lynx canadensis |
| skull | Lynx canadensis |
| small leather product | Lynx canadensis |
| trimming | lynx canadensis |
| trophy | Lynx canadensis |
| trophy | lynx canadensis |
References withheld
Machine-proposed bindings. Shown only where an expert has signed the profile and the binding is live.
No references are recorded for this species: none is shown, and none was machine-proposed for review.
Timeline curated
Curated events. Those with no corroborating table in this database are marked.
| Date | Event | Type | Corroboration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2025) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2018-06-15 | CITES Trade: claws | cites_trade | checked against cites_trade_records |
| 2016 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2016) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2015 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2015) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2012-12-07 | EU Decision: Positive | eu_decision | curated |
| 2008 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2008) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 2007-03-27 | EU Decision: Positive | eu_decision | curated |
| 2002 | IUCN Red List Assessment (2002) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 1996 | IUCN Red List Assessment (1996) | iucn_assessment | checked against iucn_assessments |
| 1977-02-04 | Listed in CITES Appendix II | cites_listing | checked against cites_listings |
Events marked curated are not matched by a row in a corroborating table, either because none applies or because the table holds no such row, and rest on the curator alone. They are shown, and marked, rather than presented as equivalent to a table-checked fact.