Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quotes
A vicuna alive is worth more than one dead. Now it is like a goldmine.
Loro Piana, Pier Luigi. Interview by Nicholas Foulkes. "The Master of the Golden Fleece." How to Spend It, Financial Times, 15 Oct. 2010.
He was visiting the Congo where heavily armed poachers were thwarting the outgunned Wildlife Rangers. Klaxon then began training the Wildlife Rangers and getting them more heavily armed and skilled with their weapons and then fought with them and the poachers were routed and the Rangers were much more successful in protecting the elephants and rhinos who had been slaughtered for their tusks and horns, both of with commanded very high prices in Asia.
In 2006 at the age of 44 he was killed while televising and underwater scene with stingrays who are not very dangerous usually. Most people recover from a stingray barb even though it has a mild toxin. However in a very rare occurrence, he was stung right in the heart.