The Secret Life of Bird Feathers W/ Esha Munshi | Moving Forests | EP-32

How about monetization? Like now you have a place and you're doing this full time.

You're not working as an architect.

So how are you making money from this or not? This is

not a project to make money.

All right.

This is a project where I need people's money to improve.

It's like I have to apply for grants.

I have to apply for donations.

I have to apply for CSRs to make this work happen.

So it's not about making money because...

But then in order for it to sustain, it needs funds.

Yeah, this is what I was getting to.

And for something like this, there is no precedent in India yet.

But I'm sure you looked at some global precedents and you tried to replicate it here.

So how was that process?

So I'm trying to.

So Feather Library was, it started in November 2021.

I launched the website in November 2021.

And in 2022, I had to go to US to attend a family function.

So I spoke to a friend of mine at Cornell Lab of Ornithology that I'm coming to the US.

Can I come and learn more about museum specimens? This is a project which I've started in India, but I've only learned what I know and what I've sharvin and i have figured out how to do it but i want to learn the proper way of doing things so can i come and learn because i knew they had a museum where they housed a lot of bird skins and that photo in fact was my inspiration because that photo was in the ornithologic textbook which i was reading so in that textbook in the chapter of feathers and plumages The first photo which is there is of a drawer of all these birds stacked up, multiples of same species in a very neat way.

And that photo was my inspiration that we don't have anything like that, that we can open a drawer and see what we see outside.

If we want to see birds, we have to go outside and see the live birds.

So I knew that they had a museum there which had all these skins.

So I went to Cornell in March 2022, April 2022.