As the price of their wool rises, vicuñas, like the one picture here near the ALMA telescope in Chile, faces threats from poaching gangs. Alessandro Caproni/Flickr CC BY 2.0 In May, Peruvian ...

Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...

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These vicuñas are awaiting a haircut at Pulario in Bolivia. Daniel Maydana This story was first published on Mongabay.com as part of its Latin American Wildlife Trade series Corsino Huallata Ibarra ...

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PAMPA GALERAS, Peru — Hundreds of villagers march side by side across the wind-blasted Andean plain, closing in on their prey: herds of nervous, fast-moving vicunas -- the smaller, wilder cousins of ...

Approximately 5,000 vicuñas have been found dead over the past five years, skinned and stripped of their valuable fur to supply an illicit international trade — possibly including China. Identifying ...