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 ...

For the ultimate winter wardrobe pick-me-up, invest in a layer made out of one of the most luxurious and rare materials in the world: vicuña. Yes, coats, jackets, and scarves made out of vicuña often ...

At the forefront of protecting vicuña is the Italian luxury goods brand Loro Piana. It has worked with the Peruvian government and Andean communities since 1994 to rehabilitate the vicuña’s habitat ...

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 Asian ...

Every year, Peru carries out the chaccu, when vicuñas (wild relatives of the llama) are sheared for their wool. It happens in the final week of June at Pampa Galeras-Bárbara d'Achille Natural Reserve, ...

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 ...

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 ...