What does shearing vicuña in Bolivia and tycoon Donald Trump and actor Daniel Craig have in common? The love of one of the world's most treasured and expensive wools.

Every two years, the wind-swept Andean plain is overcome essentially by two herds - wild vicuña and a mechanical herd made up of men on motorcycles, as Aymara villagers conduct a frenzied chase to round up the prized animals for shearing.

About a hundred men and women from Ucha Ucha come together for the biennial vicuña shearing, which lasts four days.

The residents of Ucha Ucha used to form giant human cordons to corner the animals and harvest their fine fur, which produces one of the world's most expensive wools. But motorcycles are ideal on the flat, treeless landscape of Bolivia's altiplano, according to The Associated Press.

"This is our industry, the vicuña; we've been doing it for 10 years. It's a renewable resource, it's not like gold, gold isn't renewable, that's why we don't have a mine in our community here," said Gregorio Blanco, head of the shearers, The Telegraph reports.

How much does this precious wool cost?

Unprocessed wool from the vicuña, the smallest of the South American camelids, brings in between $300 and $500 a kilogram (about $140-$230 a pound). The fiber is highly regarded in the fashion industry, and has been used to make suits for movie stars like James Bond actor, Daniel Craig and real estate mogul Donald Trump.

Ucha Ucha has a unique but temperamental climate - it's 14,800 feet (4,500 meters) above sea level in the Apolobamba nature reserve, 167 miles (269 kilometers) northwest of the Bolivian capital of La Paz. "The icy wind and burning sun at this altitude slice and bake the skin of the area's indigenous residents."

Despite the income the vicuña wool brings in, the people of Ucha Ucha make sure to honor their land.

First, they make an offering to the Pachamama (Mother Earth), then the motorcycles herd the animals into a corral made with sticks and netting, where the vicuñas are held for about five hours before they are released.

The process involves having two men hold each vicuña down while another shears its fur in the hopes of gathering 40 kilograms (nearly 90 pounds) of wool in a day.

"Before we sheared them every year, but now we do it every two years because the hairs are so small. The profits are divided among the community's members and it is a great help because at this altitude nothing grows," Blanco adds.

During the last shearing in 2011, Ucha Ucha residents say they made about $300 per family. This year, they anticipate making around the same profit.

The Associated Press points out that the Vicuña were once hunted to near extinction, but now hunting them is forbidden and the Aymara shear and release the animals.  Because of these protective efforts, the vicuña population has rebounded.

Unlike llamas and alpacas that have been domesticated, the vicuña still lives and thrives in the wild.