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CITES has helped several species recover, especially where controls on trade were combined with protection on the ground.
Vicuña: this wild relative of the llama in the Andes has very fine, valuable wool. Hunting reduced it to fewer than 10,000 animals by the 1960s. It was listed in Appendix I in 1975, banning international trade, while Peru and other range countries protected it. Numbers have since risen to over 350,000. Some populations were moved to Appendix II, allowing legal trade in wool sheared from live animals, which gives local communities an income and a reason to protect the herds.
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