Executive summary

Since pre-Colombian times, the fibre sheared from the vicuña animal (a small member of the camel family) has been an important resource for local communities across South America’s Andes High Plain region. When overhunting threatened to drive the species to extinction, several countries, with strong leadership from Peru, spearheaded national and international measures starting in the 1970s that have helped to repopulate the vicuña species and reinvigorate sustainable local livelihoods in the region.

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