Cabe destacar los diagnosticos sobre las granjas comunales, pastizales y
vicunas en Tanta (Flores, Naupari, Tacuna y Yalli, 2014; Flores, 2015a, 2015b), asi como la evaluacion del impacto y la vulnerabilidad ante el cambio climatico de la RPNYC (Gil Ramon et al., 2013).
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Vicuna, the world's most expensive yarn.
Uno de los aspectos clave de la ecologia de la
vicuna es el uso del habitat, habiendose observado en diferentes estudios que la distribucion de las
vicunas no es homogenea y se encuentra asociada principalmente a la disponibilidad y calidad nutricional del forraje, a las fuentes de agua y a otros factores ambientales como los disturbios antropicos (Koford, 1957; Franklin, 1983; Cajal, 1989; Renandeau d'Arc et al., 2000, Villalba, 2003, Arzamendia et al., 2006, Borgnia et al.
Vicunas are herding animals and live in groups of six to 15 females with one dominant male or in large male herds of up to 150 animals.
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Vicunas herded in Peru for the annual shear and release' ADVICE: Mark Challis
In Peru, the National Council of South American Camelids has developed techniques for capturing and harvesting wool from wild
vicunas, and has taught and supervised campesinos in
vicuna management.
The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and
vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
While residents of the high plain of the Ulla Ulla National Fauna Reserve, straddling the Bolivian-Peruvian border in the eastern range of the Andes, feel pride in the thirty-eight thousand
vicunas with whom they share the reserve, they also feel resentment toward the animals, which eat the same forage as domestic livestock but are protected by law, meaning that their extremely valuable fur may not be touched.
of Camerino, Italy) present the proceedings of an October 2004 joint symposium bringing together South American and European researchers studying South American camelids (llamas, alpacas,
vicunas, and guanacos).
