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Bird Hunting for fashion purposes starts
1870 Victoria era England: Having bird plumes commonly in hats starts to become a fashion trend for women in England. Birds are hunted for their feathers/ plumes (which is the resource in this case). -
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Birds are hunted and their babies left to die
Birds are over-hunted, but more importantly when they are killed, nothing protects the young babies from predators. This dramatically hurts the substantiality of this resource because the young birds cannot grow up and reproduce. The cultural and economic factors have the majority impact on this resource because culturally is was a big deal to have plume hats, while economically, some birds feathers were worth as much as gold! -
Guy Bradley
Guy Bradley and his brother served as scouts for a French Plume hunter. Bradley writes that they killed 1,397 birds of 36 species in this one trip. The method of extracting this resource without letting the population reproduce hurt the overall sustainability of bird plumes. -
Mass Hunting of Birds
In 1888, over 5 million birds had been killed for their feathers and plumes. Feathers and therefore birds are categorized as renewable natural capital because birds are living species that can reproduce (but not as fast as they were being killed in this case). -
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Bird Refugees Created
Multiple refugees and islands are created to house endangered species of birds. These safe havens allow for the population to stabilize itself without the overhunting. This practice increases the sustainability of this resource, but more importantly keeps specific species of birds from extinction