With temperatures falling to minus 9.4 Fahrenheit in this year's Southern Hemisphere winter, so far 50,000 alpacas have died this season. Authorities fear up 300,000 of the animals could perish if ...

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A peasant walks among her alpaca herd in Lagunillas in the Peruvian department of Puno on December 2, 2022 AFP A drought in the Peruvian Andes has ravaged alpaca flocks and withered potato crops, ...

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For local alpaca farmer Chris Schade, comparing his animals' fleece to sheep wool comes dangerously close to an insult. Alpaca fiber is silkier and smoother than wool and about 30 percent warmer, ...

Farmers raising alpacas for their fleece are a growing segment of the U.S. agriculture industry Fifteen years ago, Jim Barker's wife came home from an Ohio county fair and told him she'd found their ...

SAN ANTONIO DE PUTINA, Peru (AP) — After three days of heavy snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures, Mateo Mullisaca watches as one of his alpacas falls to the ground in agony on his farm almost ...

Reporter David Medcalf called in to Alpaca breeder and banker Joe Phelan, who is introducing his unusual flock - with 'treks' round the grounds of Killruddery House in Bray Alpaca Joe – aka Joe Phelan ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 33, No. 3, Water Governance in Mountains (Aug 2013), pp. 280-293 (14 pages) Increasingly, attention in regional, national, and international water governance ...

A skinned alpaca, which died due to subfreezing temperatures, hangs on a fence above live alpacas in Peru. Alpaca owners are butchering their dead animals to cook for their families. The Peruvian ...