Vega Island...

is a recently designated World Heritage Site and we made landing in Zodiacs at the village of Nes to tour exhibits related to the eider down industry. Villagers would care for the eider duck in an extraordinarily tender symbiotic relationship where the villagers would protect the ducks while on their nests from predators, and at the same time carefully remove the down feathers from the perimeter of the nest. The female would pluck additional down from her breast to line the nest, to be subsequently harvested. It takes about 70 ducks to provide 1 kilogram of down ($900 US), enough for a large duvet.