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Global Animal Dealers in Colonial Indonesia
During the 19th century, the increasing number of circuses, zoological gardens, and pet stores across the globe catalysed the global commerce of live animals. The latter part of the 1800s saw animal dealers from Europe and the United States establish a presence in the wildlife trade of Southeast Asia. This contribution explores the history of global animal dealers in colonial Indonesia from the latter part of the 1800s to the initial half of the 1900s. Primary sources rely mostly on colonial newspapers and memoirs. Charles Mayer, Frank Buck, Albert Meems, P.G.J Riemens, and Karl Kreth were some international animal dealers operating in the Archipelago. During the expansion of zoological gardens worldwide and the emergence of the global movement to protect wildlife by using colonial in-frastructures and networks in the Netherlands Indies, these international animal dealers engaged in the hunting, exporting, and exchanging of animals for pleasure and scientific study.
