Argentina: number of hares slaughtered 2010-2019
In the past decade, Argentina experienced an overall declinining trend in the number of European hares slaughtered. In 2019, around 690 thousand hares were slaughtered and processed for meat consumption in the South American country, down from 850 thousand a year earlier, and a decrease of 63 percent in comparison to the beginning of the decade. The European hare is an exotic species in Argentina, whose population is controlled through an annual hunting season. The processed meat is mainly directed at exports. As such, in the same period, exports of rabbit meat from Argentina also showed a downward trend.
