Wholesale slaughter was going on ... Not all of the birds were killed for their feathers, some had their wings removed while they were still alive. Many of the birds that met this end were ...

They go all the way to Rajasthan to purchase feathers in bulk (1,000 feathers for Rs 2,000). Every vendor purchases up to 4,000 feathers at a time and sells in the city at the rate of about Rs ...

The bulk of the work investigated feathers from three species of shearwaters who migrate more than 60,000km over open ocean each year, to and from their breeding areas. Foraging across huge areas ...

Today, Mazzanti receives his feathers in bulk, but he says he’s made a point of keeping his supply chain sustainable by sourcing most of his feathers from poultry producers. “All these ...