"Vicuna"
vicuña
Vicuña, (Vicugna vicugna), smallest member of the camel family, Camelidae (order Artiodactyla).
The vicuña is closely related to the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), llama (L. glama), and alpaca (Vicugna pacos)—all of which are known collectively as lamoids—and it is the alpaca’s wild ancestor.
Expansión agrícola amenaza el hábitat de las vicuñas en la Reserva Chimborazo
Vicuña - Chimborazo, Ecuador.
Ecuador, wild vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) on Mt. Chimborazo (the highest peak in Ecuador at 6310m) Y
El Chimborazo y vicunas / Chimborazo Ecuador
The vicuña (Lama vicugna) or vicuna (both /vɪˈkuːnjə/, very rarely spelled vicugna, its former genus name) is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations. Vicuñas are relatives of the llama, and are now believed to be the wild ancestor of domesticated alpacas, which are raised for their coats.
Vicuñas produce small amounts of extremely fine wool, which is very expensive because the animal can only be shorn every three years and has to be caught from the wild. When knitted together, the product of the vicuña's wool is very soft and warm. The Inca valued vicuñas highly for their wool, and it was against the law for anyone but royalty to wear vicuña garments; today, the vicuña is the national animal of Peru and appears on the Peruvian coat of arms
They were declared endangered in 1974, only about 6,000 animals were left. Today, the vicuña population has recovered to about 350,000,
To cooperate on the conservation of the vicuña, the governments of Bolivia and Peru signed the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicuña on 16 August 1969 in La Paz, explicitly leaving the treaty open to accession by Argentina and Chile. Ecuador acceded on 11 February 1976.
The Convention for the Conservation and Management of the Vicuña, was signed between Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru on 20 December 1979 in Lima. It explicitly allowed only Argentina to sign it if it also signed the 1969 La Paz Convention (Article 12; Argentina joined in 1981), and did not allow other countries to accede to the convention 'due to its specific character' (Article 13).
Today, the vicuña is mainly wild, but the local people still perform special rituals with these creatures, including a fertility rite.
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