Cape Town – An explosion inside a home and the discovery of a stash of expensive alcohol, including whiskey and champagne, have marked a week of intense perlemoen busts carried out around the Western ...

Cape Town - Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa announced on Wednesday a huge increase in fines for perlemoen (abalone) poaching. The maximum fine for poaching perlemoen goes up to ...

Two Eastern Cape policemen who worked in a court dealing with cases of perlemoen poaching were themselves arrested this week for allegedly plundering the endangered species. Wayne Kuhn and Willem van ...

In 2024, poachers stripped the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline of an estimated R1.2-billion worth of perlemoen, which ends up in Asia via the black market. Hundreds of illegal divers operate along the ...

In little over a year, a dedicated anti-poaching operative has recovered 100 bags of illegally harvested perlemoen along the Nelson Mandela Bay coastline. Working with his team from Dark Water Ops, a ...

A proposal that could curb the illegal trade in perlemoen has fallen between two stools, with neither the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism nor its fisheries arm able to explain why the ...

While the authorities were launching the country's first environmental court in Hermanus last week in a bid to stamp out poaching, Marine and Coastal Management inspectors were investigating a ...

Most of the 30 suspected members of a perlemoen poaching syndicate arrested in a Scorpions raid in Gansbaai on Friday, lived lavish lifestyles and drove luxury vehicles. This is according to Scorpions ...

Perlemoen worth R86,000 was confiscated and a suspect arrested after a high-speed chase by Gqeberha flying squad members and Humewood police on Thursday. Police spokesperson Capt Sandra Janse van ...

A haul of perlemoen worth about R1-million was found hidden in the bushes along Port Elizabeth’s Marine Drive on Friday. Police spokeswoman Colonel Priscilla Naidu said members of the Port Elizabeth ...

Johannesburg — Two Eastern Cape policemen who worked in a court dealing with cases of perlemoen poaching were themselves arrested this week for allegedly plundering the endangered species. Wayne Kuhn ...