Wednesday 18 April 2012


The Peru government made a law that prohibited the hunting of vicuña, but many people are still poaching the South American Camelid. The people could contain the vicuñas then shear them, - this is not ideal but is much better than the alternative - but many people are still choosing to kill vicuñas and then shear them. Some people in the local villages turn to poaching vicuñas than going through the long herding process. Poachers skin the dead vicuñas, leave the carcass and sell the fibre on the black market. Many villagers agree that to prevent poaching, they need money to buy better equipment such as binoculars and vehicles to catch the poachers.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4666429 

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