South Africa has taken a decisive step towards stemming the illegal harvest and trade of its endemic abalone populations by listing the species under the Convention on International Trade in ...

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Poverty and crime in South Africa are driving a surge in the illegal harvesting off its shores of the abalone, a large sea snail coveted as a delicacy in some parts ...

A new report exposes multilayered damages associated with the abalone poaching industry between South Africa and East Asia. The illegal trade is embedded in South Africa’s deeply unequal society. A ...

A bag of dried abalone confiscated from suspected poachers is seen in Cape Town March 13, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police arrested a Chinese national and ...

HAWSTON, South AfricaHAWSTON, South Africa — Nearly every house in Hawston has a boat in its yard, sometimes two. It takes a moment to realize many are out of action, grass sprouting through holes in ...

JOHANNESBURG — Poachers profiting off illegal abalone fishing are fueling a wave of violence in South Africa. A report by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, found that 96 million of the ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African court sentenced a man to two years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty to helping transport 3,243 abalone as part of an international criminal ring that ...

South African abalone imports into Hong Kong have progressively increased from 3,000 tonnes in 2000 to 6,170 tonnes in 2015, according to a new report by TRAFFIC. During this period, South Africa was ...