Resumo:
In 1980, the Tamar project started conservation activities and performed a
survey on the Brazilian beaches looking for information on the uses and cultural
habits related to the sea turtles. After diagnosing that the consumption of meat /
eggs was related to extinction, we invited some well-known fishermen to start a
new job in search of a possible behavioral change in the communities. Through
this study, we sought to understand the roots of these changes through two
tartarugueiros from the Tamar project. They were observed on a daily basis but
not investigated more systematically. Was there a formation of ecological
subjects? or everything happened through circumstantial inductions (exchange
for money)? The methodology used was based on biographical narratives. Those
chosen to participate live in the Coqueiros community, Jandaíra County / BA. Two
semi-structured interviews were conducted with each tartarugueiro, and the
themes addressed were: ecology of sea turtles, personal background and
professional training (as a fisherman / tartarugueiro); perception of changes in
recent years in their region and in their own lives and projects and fears for their
future and their descendants’. Between the presented views; one narrows
comprehension of the environment to the village; the other one is wider and there
is an extension of the conservatory role to other species (like foxes), as well as
the environment in general. These views express themselves in a variation of
personal actions beyond the job, having the compromise of making the
community focused into not being predators. One can say that the working
relationship, the general cultural changes, the training, the enforcement action
and observable results of the project jointly complete the behavioral changes
related to the turtles. The qualification of the tartarugueiros as ecological subjects
is ongoing.