Nicky Erasmus has been a thorn in the side of the illicit perlemoen trade for many years, but a new challenge awaits abroad.

Discover how conservationists, scientists and coastal communities are working to protect the Western Cape's prized abalone ...

Nineteen suspected members of a massive perlemoen poaching syndicate who were arrested in March are expected back in the dock at the Cape Town Regional Court on Wednesday. Facing charges of corruption ...

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 ...

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 ...

The case involving 19 men and women charged with corruption and racketeering in an alleged perlemoen syndicate will be transferred to the Western Cape High Court, the Cape Town Regional Court heard on ...

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 ...

The law-enforcement officials standing on the sand at Pearly Beach laugh as they watch two kelp-draped heads bobbing about 100m offshore. The reason for their mirth is because the heads belong to two ...

The war to halt perlemoen (abalone) poaching has pitched R180-a-kilogram divers on the one side against R4 000-a-month marine inspectors on the other, MPs heard on Wednesday. A briefing to members of ...

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 ...