The vicuna, a cousin of the llama and alpaca, holds a secret: its wool is among the world's finest and most coveted. By the 1960s, the vicuna was on the brink of extinction, with populations ...
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From Indigenous Unpaid Labor to High Fashion: the Real Cost of the World's Finest Vicuña SweaterWhile a 75-year-old indigenous farmer woman in Peru is expected to herd wild vicuñas for miles on a remote plain 13,000 feet above sea level as a community service free of charge, the sweaters ...
The vicuña, a wild relative of the llama, could help reestablish plants in barren areas where glaciers have melted, according to a recent study in the high Andes of Peru. As vicuñas tend to poop ...
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