Poachers kill more than 150 vicunas in highland community of Huancabamba

Poachers have killed more than 150 vicunas — one of two wild South American camelids — near the highland community of Huancabamba, in Peru’s southern department of Apurímac, said community leader Eugenio Allccia Díaz. According to Allccia, the poachers rounded up the vicuna with 4×4 jeeps, shot them dead, and then stripped the animals of [...]