Fibre, hide, and wood are naturally grown materials used for a variety of products including clothing and tools and for construction. 

Fibre includes materials such as wool, cotton, and hemp. Wool (and hair) are harvested from sheep, camels, alpacas, rabbits, goats, and many other animals. Most of these animals are farmed, though there are important sources of wool harvested from wild animals such as muskoxen. We also include feathers, sourced from both domestic and wild animals in this category. Though there is some subsistence gathering of wild plants for fibre, most of the world’s fibre is derived from cotton and hemp grown on a large scale through agricultural practices.

Though we are still harvesting wood from natural forests, most of the world’s wood comes from plantation harvesting.