For many communities around the world, wildlife is more than biodiversity. It can also be a source of food, income and cultural identity. The Original Food Animals Before there were the cattle ranches, poultry farms and supermarkets, humans survived by hunting and gathering. The first food animals were not livestock but wildlife. For thousands of years, people relied on the animals around them for survival. Only later did humans begin domesticating species such as cattle, goa

The night shift vendor noticed it first in the silence between customers. A sack of maize, carefully stacked, carefully counted, had shifted. Not fallen. Not spilled. Shifted, as if something small and determined had worked through it grain by grain. By morning, half the stock was gone. No broken lock. No forced entry. Only the faint, unmistakable trail of something that had already disappeared into the city before dawn. Whatever had done this had been here all night. And it