1 INTRODUCTION Big cats, including all species in the Panthera genus (i.e., lion, Panthera leo; tiger, P. tigris; jaguar, P. onca; leopard, P. pardus; and snow leopard, P. uncia), have long been valued in human culture (e.g., Good et al., 2017). Trade in big cats, their body parts, and derivatives spans thousands of years and covers a wide spectrum of products and uses, which may be legal or illegal, and is driven by various and often complex motivations (e.g., Somerville, 2019).
