Animals share our landscapes, our economies, our homes, and sometimes our work. Yet their lives are too often understood only through their usefulness to humans. This section explores the relationships between people and other species, from working animals and rural communities to wildlife, conservation, and animal welfare. Stories about intelligence, dependence, coexistence, and responsibility and about learning to recognize other living beings on their own terms.
In a forest in central Italy, Stefano earns his living selling firewood, working with mules on slopes that tractors cannot reach without altering the paths. A day among them reveals a remarkable intelligence shared between humans, animals, and the landscape they depend on.
AFAR uses vegetable-tanned zebu leather and horn recovered from existing Ethiopian farming and food systems. “By-product” is not a claim of innocence. It describes where the material begins, and the responsibility that follows.