SERVICE RE-OPENS U.S. MARKET TO “GOLDEN FLEECE” AS FOUR VICUNA POPULATIONS RECLASSIFIED TO THREATENED

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it has reclassified the vicuna populations of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru from endangered to threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, effective July 1, 2002. These populations have been downlisted to threatened because of ongoing increases in population numbers resulting from conservation actions undertaken in the four countries. Ecuador