Cases / Law, regulation and treaties · Peru · 1960–2018
Vicuna fell to about 5,000 by 1960 and reached about 200,000 in Peru
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Mongabay reports about 200,000 vicuna in Peru by 2018, up from about 5,000 in 1960. What is at stake is the animal's recovery and who captures the value of its fibre.
What?
Peru had about 200,000 vicuna by 2018, according to Mongabay, after a figure of about 5,000 in 1960. Mongabay
Where?
The Andes; the population figures are for Peru
When?
1960 figure; 1994 agreement; 2018 population figures Mongabay
Who?
Gained
- Loro Piana — Exclusive right to buy, process and distribute vicuna fibre under a 1994 agreement BES-Net
Lost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
An exclusive fibre purchase, processing and distribution right under the 1994 agreement, per Loro Piana and BES-Net. BES-Net
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
Mongabay (September 2018) gives about 5,000 vicuna in 1960 and about 200,000 in Peru, and reports that the fibre price fell from 1,000 to 390 dollars per kilogram.
Mongabay also reports that a local garment industry plan in the Lucanas community has stalled.
A 1994 exclusive agreement, described by Loro Piana and BES-Net, covers buying, processing and distributing vicuna fibre.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: a pre-Columbian vicuna population of about 3 million, per Loro Piana's own publication.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: Peru created the Pampa Galeras reserve in 1967, and four countries signed a conservation agreement in 1969.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: about 450,000 vicuna across the Andes, per ITC.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: villages receive 2 to 6% of the price of finished vicuna products, per a single report.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: Loro Piana says the 1994 agreement was made with the Peruvian government and Andean communities.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations— Communities and civil society✓ Researchers
Press and investigations
- How a national reserve stopped the extinction of the Peruvian vicunaMongabay · 2018-09