Whales Lost and Found: Rescuing a history of biodiversity loss in early modern Brazil
Worldwide, whales have been hunted to the brink of extinction. In Brazil, whaling was a royal monopoly between 1614 and 1801. Within the dynamics of the Portuguese Empire, it was a stimulus that promoted wealth and the circulation of knowledge, practices, and products. The development of whaling sta...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:10536387 2024-09-15T18:11:12+00:00 Whales Lost and Found: Rescuing a history of biodiversity loss in early modern Brazil Vieira, Nina 2023-03-28 https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.976 eng eng University of Warwick https://zenodo.org/communities/cham https://zenodo.org/communities/concha https://zenodo.org/communities/eu https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.976 oai:zenodo.org:10536387 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 10(2), 106-130, (2023-03-28) whaling outhern right whale humpback whale Portuguese Empire marine environmental history info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2023 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.976 2024-07-25T14:50:40Z Worldwide, whales have been hunted to the brink of extinction. In Brazil, whaling was a royal monopoly between 1614 and 1801. Within the dynamics of the Portuguese Empire, it was a stimulus that promoted wealth and the circulation of knowledge, practices, and products. The development of whaling stations in four coastal sites fostered the construction of littoral spaces, shaped the ways people perceived and used the ocean and marine animals, and left an impact on whale populations in a truly entangled history between humans and the non-human world. In this article, we aim to identify the main target species and number of animals caught through the analysis of historical sources from the 17 th and 18 th centuries. Southern Right Whale and Humpback Whale were the main target species, to a different extent, between the north-eastern and south-eastern whaling sites, but occasionally hunted simultaneously. We accounted for a total of 9080 animals captured in 41 years, between 1627 and 1801, and addressed hunting loss and calf-securing practices. In discussing biodiversity loss in the era of the Anthropocene, we expect to contribute to a better understanding of early impacts on marine life in the 1600-1800 period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale Southern Right Whale Zenodo Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 10 2 106 130 |
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Worldwide, whales have been hunted to the brink of extinction. In Brazil, whaling was a royal monopoly between 1614 and 1801. Within the dynamics of the Portuguese Empire, it was a stimulus that promoted wealth and the circulation of knowledge, practices, and products. The development of whaling stations in four coastal sites fostered the construction of littoral spaces, shaped the ways people perceived and used the ocean and marine animals, and left an impact on whale populations in a truly entangled history between humans and the non-human world. In this article, we aim to identify the main target species and number of animals caught through the analysis of historical sources from the 17 th and 18 th centuries. Southern Right Whale and Humpback Whale were the main target species, to a different extent, between the north-eastern and south-eastern whaling sites, but occasionally hunted simultaneously. We accounted for a total of 9080 animals captured in 41 years, between 1627 and 1801, and addressed hunting loss and calf-securing practices. In discussing biodiversity loss in the era of the Anthropocene, we expect to contribute to a better understanding of early impacts on marine life in the 1600-1800 period. |
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Whales Lost and Found: Rescuing a history of biodiversity loss in early modern Brazil |
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