Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2016, the Inter-American Foundation issued a $903,811 grant to COOPECAN, an organization training alpaca farmers in Peru, ...
Officials in Peru are scrambling to help farmers of one of the country’s most emblematic animals, after unusually cold weather killed more than 170,000 alpacas earlier this month. Heavy snowfall and ...
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 ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A community of alpaca farmers in the high Peruvian Andes is witnessing the loss of its mountain glaciers as a result of a warming climate and ...
Hot water bottle in hand, I snuggle up to the frosted window and open my eyes to a sublime view of Peru’s Andean countryside. The rugged peaks of the Andes, the sacred “Apu,” stand out across this ...