For starters, as soon as limited legal trade in vicuña wool was established, it opened the door for laundering of illegal counterparts. As poaching ramped up, some communities gave up on ...

The wool of vicuñas—found in the Andean highlands of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile—has been prized for thousands of years. Poaching of vicuñas is on the rise despite a legal trade in ...

Inca rulers prized their soft, warm wool, and today coats made from vicuna wool can go for as ... of Nature lists them as of least concern. If poaching continues, vicuñas could be headed back ...

Reporting from Arica, Chile — Vicunas, the wild Andean relatives of camels, are being hunted mercilessly by poachers as the price of the animals’ luxuriantly soft hair, coveted by European and ...

La Paz, Bolivia, 9th January 2013—A crucial technical meeting of the Vicuña Convention took place in mid November, which for the first time brought together Vicuña producers with official delegations ...

and returned to the wild—a practice which has dramatically decreased the threat of poaching. This process also ensures that each vicuña can lend its wool to multiple garments over the course of ...

and returned to the wild—a practice that has dramatically decreased the threat of poaching. This process also ensures that each vicuña can lend its wool to multiple garments over the course of ...

She does that by joining dozens of people from her village in herding wild vicuñas for miles on a remote plain 13,000 feet above sea level and shearing them for their soft, golden-brown wool.

For starters, as soon as limited legal trade in vicuña wool was established, it opened the door for laundering of illegal counterparts. As poaching ramped up, some communities gave up on ...