Last August, high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, the South African mining group Gold Fields launched an operation to relocate some 25 endangered short-tailed chinchillas. Once hunted ...

The short-tailed chinchilla, a high-altitude South American rodent, was hunted almost to extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries for its highly-prized fur. Now endangered, a small colony of the ...

Currently, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the Chilean chinchilla as endangered. According to Mario Ortiz, director of the reserve, the number of chinchillas that ...

SANTIAGO, July 6 (Reuters) - A Chilean enquiry into whether attempts to move a herd of chinchillas to make way for a gold mine harmed the endangered animals should be completed in the coming ...

Though chinchilla fur is highly valued for use in clothing and coats, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has restricted the sale and trade of wild chinchillas since 1975.

The short-haired chinchilla, a high-altitude South American rodent, was hunted almost to extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries for its highly-prized fur. Now endangered, a small colony of the ...

said there was no certainty the miner had captured and relocated a population of 25 critically endangered chinchillas living in the area, as asked. The regulator’s latest order, issued late on ...

Five endangered species (Species at risk of extinction due to rapid decrease in population or loss of habitat); African Painted Dogs, buff-cheeked gibbon, chinchilla, cockatoo, giraffe ...

SANTIAGO, July 6 (Reuters) - A Chilean enquiry into whether attempts to move a herd of chinchillas to make way for a gold mine harmed the endangered animals should be completed in the coming ...