So soft but so sleek!
August 13th 2007 04:24
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Peru, 1981
Photograph by Steve Raymer
Three vicuñas graze in tall grass in Peru's Pampa Galeras Reserve.
Prized for their soft, fine wool, vicuñas had been hunted to near-extinction by the late 1960s.
Government protections in Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, and international trade restrictions on vicuña wool have helped the species rebound. Despite a continued threat from poachers, they are now considered at low risk for extinction.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Wild Cargo: the Business of Smuggling Animals," March 1981, National Geographic magazine)
Vicunas - Peru - photograph
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