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MediaFaro Longreads

‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster.

Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable.

But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster.

mediafaro.org/article/20250911

The Guardian · ‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster.By Kate Marvel
#Environment#ClimateCrisis#FossilFuels
earthling

Colonialism, Culture, Whales The Cetacean Quartet by Graham Huggan, 2018

Explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and environmental humanities...

#OpenAccess

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#books
#whales
#whaling
#colonialism
#nature

schneckenhaus
Das Gelände der ehemaligen Walfangstation við Áir, 1905 von Norwegern gegründet, ist heute ein bedeutendes Industriedenkmal und vermittelt tiefe Einblicke in die Geschichte des industriellen Walfangs. Die Station markiert den Beginn einer wirtschaftlichen Epoche auf den Färöern, die bis in die 1980er-Jahre andauerte und die Inselgemeinschaft nachhaltig prägte. Für die Färinger war der Walfang die erste größere Industrie, die einen bescheidenen Wohlstand ermöglichte. Öl und Knochenmehl aus dem Walfang wurden exportiert und trugen zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung bei. In einer Landschaft mit begrenztem Ackerbau wurde das Walfleisch zudem zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der lokalen Ernährung und vielfältig in den Haushalten verarbeitet.
02.08.2025, #FaroeIslands #Streymoy #VidAir #WhalingStation #whaling #IndustrialLegacy #museum [8]
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Stornoway Gazette: New project capturing memories of Scottish whaling communities launched by historian Dan Snow. “Launching on 27 June in Dundee, with help from historian Dan Snow, the Whalers’ Memory Bank is a brand-new living, growing digital time capsule where veterans of the whaling industry, their families and communities have come together to share their stories with a wider […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/stornoway-gazette-new-project-capturing-memories-of-scottish-whaling-communities-launched-by-historian-dan-snow/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Stornoway Gazette: New project capturing memories of Scottish whaling communities launched by historian Dan Snow | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#oralhistory#personalexperience#sailing
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

Whichever path is chosen, the law will need to change. The goal is to present a new bill in the next legislative session.

This is not symbolic — it’s structural. The Icelandic legal system is being questioned and reformed, and for the first time, a full legal ban is one of the serious options on the table.

The future of #whaling in #Iceland is being written right now — and this moment needs public pressure, global awareness, and bold action.

- #PaulWatson Foundation

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

🚨 #Whaling Under Legal Review in #Iceland 🐋
A new 269-page government report could change the course of whaling in Iceland — permanently.

Following a public consultation, the Minister of Fisheries will decide the legal future of whaling. The report presents three options:

1️⃣ Allow whaling to continue
2️⃣ Ban it entirely
3️⃣ Impose stricter limitations

It doesn’t guarantee the end of whaling yet, but it’s a clear shift toward transparency, legal accountability, and possibly abolition.

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Tom Bremer

Songs to call the #whales: "Even when the Tribe wasn’t #whaling, the spiritual connection between the #Makah and the whale spirits was kept alive in the form of sacred whaling songs"—The Makah Tribe Resumes the Sacred Practice of Whaling (Yes! Magazine)

#NativeAmericans #spirituality #SacredSongs
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YES! Magazine · The Makah Tribe Is Calling Back the WhalesBy Frank Hopper
Possum Pete

"The southwest coast of #Australia hosts one of the world's few southern right #whale populations ... We knew their numbers were increasing since the 1970s but, given recent signs of slowing birth rates in ... populations elsewhere, it was important to re-assess how their recovery was progressing in Australia," Grundlehner said.

"We analyzed 49 years of aerial survey data from 1976 to 2024 ... across more than 2,000 kilometers of coastline, available from ... monitoring efforts initiated by the late John Bannister. And we were very concerned to find not only slowed growth in births ... but an actual halt and what looks like the onset of a decline.

"We found that annual births began to stagnate around 2016 and observed declining trends in the number of animals visiting the coast. ... the number of other individuals that visit has dropped by 66% between 2011 and 2024," she said.

#Whales#Whaling#Recovery
John :au: :60: :05: :12: :GP:

#SouthernRightWhale #population growth has stalled, scientists say, with a possible 'onset of a decline'.

Australia's southern right whale population growth has #stalled, raising questions about the recovery of a species that was nearly driven to #extinction by historical #whaling, according to a new study.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/ima

ABC News · Something is happening with the southern right whale population, scientists sayBy Ellen Coulter
Totts

For the second year in a row, the whaling season has not taken place in Iceland, and there is every likelihood this abhorrent practice may be consigned to the past.

Strangely, here is one of the reasons as to why it no longer happens.

#Iceland’s second largest #whaling company, IP-Utgerd, ceased operations in 2020, citing declining profits and demand for whale meat facilitated by the #COVID-19 pandemic

Possibly Covid's only benefit?

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