There have been at least five multi-million rand abalone busts in the Western Cape alone since December.
CAPE TOWN – Abalone poaching has cost South Africa 96 million individual abalones worth R10 billion between 2000 to 2016.
This is according to a recent report by TRAFFIC, an international wildlife trade monitoring organisation. Each of the operations saw batches of illegally poached abalone worth more than R2 million being confiscated. In December, a police operation in Swellendam led to the seizure of more than 7,000 units of abalone worth R3 million; one suspect was arrested in this case.
A month later, two people were arrested after officials found over 5,500 units of abalone to the value of R2.4 million in Milnerton.In the Karoo bust, officers discovered a truck loaded with abalone worth an estimated R28 million and just last week, officials found abalone worth R5.5 million in Century City and arrested two people.
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