Poaching Crisis in South Africa
More than 2000 illegal abalone is removed from the sea each month. Read more about this environmental disaster!


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Did You Know?
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The abalone take seven years to reach maturity and are then harvested, processed, and packaged for export in different forms.
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Since 2001 an estimated 75 million abalone—40,000 tons—have been plucked from South African waters!
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South Africa's Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries puts the value of this illegal trade at close to $440 million a year.