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ALBRIGHT, B., M.O. WOODBURNE, J.A. CASE & D.S. CHANEY. 2003. A leatherback sea turtle from the Eocene of Antarctica: Implications for the antiquity of gigantothermy in Dermochelyidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23: 945-49. ( Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, USA).

ALERSTAM, T., A. HEDENSTROM & S. AKESSON. 2003. Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants. Oikos 103: 247-60. (Lund Univ, Dept Anim Ecol, Ecol. Bldg., SE-22362 Lund, Sweden).

ANDREWS, H. 2003. Manuals on sea turtle conservation. Kachhapa 9: 17-18. Available online at: <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>.

ANON. 2003. Operation Kachhapa News. CEC on the Olive Ridleys in Orissa. Kachhapa 9: 21-22. Available online as above.

ANON. 2003. Operation Kachhapa Education & Awareness Activities. Kachhapa 9: 22. Available online as above.ANON. 2004. Abstracts of papers presented in 14th Japanese Sea Turtle Conference in Toyohashi. Umigame Newsletter of Japan No. 60: 20. In Japanese. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

ANON. 2004. Endangered sea turtles make a dramatic turnaround. Marine Pollution Bulletin 48: 415-16.

ASAKAWA, H. 2003. I wonder if plastics-ingestion related mortality of sea turtles is as high as people believe unquestioningly. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 59: 2-3. In Japanese. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

AUREGGI, M. & S. CHANTRAPORNSYL. 2003. Conservation Project: Sea turtles at Phra Thong Island, South Thailand. Kachhapa 9: 3-5. Available online as above.

AVENS, L. & K.J. LOHMANN. 2004. Navigation and seasonal migratory orientation in juvenile sea turtles. Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 1771-78. (Dept. of Biology, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 275993280, USA. E-mail: Larisa.Avens@noaa.gov).

BALAZS, G.H. & M. CHALOUPKA. 2004. Thirty-year recovery trend in the once depleted Hawaiian green sea turtle stock. Biological Conservation 117: 491-98. (M. Chaloupka, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia. E-mail: m.chaloupka@mailbox.uq.edu.au).

BIASATTI, D.M. 2004. Stable carbon isotopic profiles of sea turtle humeri: implications for ecology and physiology. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 206: 203-16. (Florida State Univ. Dept. Geol. Sci., Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. E-mail: biasatti@mail.magnet.fsu.edu).

BLAMIRES, S.J. 2004. Habitat preferences of coastal goannas (Varanus panoptes): are they exploiters of sea turtle nests at Fog Bay, Australia? Copeia 2004: 370-377. (Heydon-Laurence Building A08, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. E-mail: s_blamires@hotmail.com).

CANBOLAT, A.F. 2004. A review of sea turtle nesting activity along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Biological Conservation 116: 81-91. (Hacettepe Univ, Dept Biol, TR-06532 Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: canbolat@haceteppe.edu.tr).

CARRERAS, C., L. CARDONA & A. AGUILAR. 2004. Incidental catch of the loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta off the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean). Biological Conservation 117: 321-29. (Univ Barcelona, Fac Biol, Dept Anim Biol, Avda Diagonal 645, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain).

CASALE, P., P. NICOLOSI, D. FREGGI, M. TURCHETTO & R. ARGANO. 2003. Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in Italy and in the Mediterranean basin. Herpetological Journal 13: 135-39. (Via Calderara 29, I00125 Rome, Italy. E-mail: paolo.casale@tiscali.it).

CHALOUPKA, M. 2004. Exploring the metapopulation dynamics of the southern Great Barrier Reef green sea turtle stock and the possible consequences of sex-biased local harvesting. Eds. H. Akçakaya, M. Burgman, O. Kindvall, C. Wood, P. Sjogren-Gulve, J. Hattfield & M. McCarthy. Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies. Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY. (Department of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia. E-mail: m.chaloupka@mailbox.uq.edu.au).

CHOUDHURY, B.C., B. PANDAV, B. TRIPATHY & H.V. ANDREWS. 2003. Sea turtle conservation: Eco (turtle) friendly coastal development. A GOI - UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India: 44 pp. Available from: Wildlife Institute of India, P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India. (E-mail: undpturtle@wii.gov.in).

FRAZIER, J. 2004. Marine turtles of the past: a vision for the future? Eds. R. C. G. M. Lauwerier & I. Plug. The Future from the Past. Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management. Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002. Oxbow Books: 103-16. (Conservation and Research Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA. E-mail: kurma@shentel.net).

FUJIHARA, J., T. KUNITO, R. KUBOTA & S. TANABE. 2003. Arsenic accumulation in livers of pinnipeds, seabirds and sea turtles: subcellular distribution and interaction between arsenobetaine and glycine betaine. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C Toxicology & Pharmacology 136: 287-96. (S. Tanabe, Ehime Univ,
CMES, Bunkyo-Cho 2-5, Matsuyama, Ehime 7908577, Japan).

GAILLARD, C., P. BERNIER, G. BARALE, J.P. BOURSEAU, E. BUFFETAUT, R. EZQUERRA, J.C. GALL, F.D. DE BROIN, S. RENOUS & S. WENZ. 2003. A giant Upper Jurassic turtle revealed by its trackways. Lethaia 36: 315
22. (Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5125, 2 Rue Raphael Dubois, FR-69622 Villeurbanne, France).

GREENBLATT, R.J., T.M. WORK, G.H. BALAZS, C.A. SUTTON, R.N. CASEY & J.W. CASEY. 2004. The Ozobranchus leech is a candidate mechanical vector for the fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpes virus found latently infecting skin tumors on Hawaiian green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Virology 321: 101-10. (J. W. Casey, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medical Center C5-153, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-6401, USA. E-mail: jwc3@cornell.edu).

GRIBBLE, N.A. 2003. GBR-prawn: modelling ecosystem impacts of changes in fisheries management of the commercial prawn (shrimp) trawl fishery in the far northern Great Barrier Reef. Fisheries Research 65: 493506. (Northern Fisheries Centre, Queensland Dept Primary Ind., P.O. Box 5396, Cairns, Australia).

HATASE, H., Y. MATSUZAWA, K. SATO, T. BANDO & K. GOTO. 2004. Remigration and growth of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting on Senri Beach in Minabe, Japan: life-history polymorphism in a sea turtle population. Marine Biology 144: 807-11. (Laboratory of Fisheries and Environmental Oceanography, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. E-mail: hatase@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

HAYS, G.C., J.D.R. HOUGHTON, C. ISAACS, R.S. KING, C. LLOYD & P. LOVELL. 2004. First records of oceanic dive profiles for leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, indicate behavioural plasticity associated with long-distance migration. Animal Behaviour 67: 733-43. (School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. E-mail: g.hays@swan.ac.uk).

HAYS, G. C., J. D. METCALFE & A.W. WALNE. 2004. The implications of lung-related buoyancy control for dive depth and duration. Ecology 85:1137-45. (Address as above).

HOCHSCHEID, S., F. BENTIVEGNA & J. R. SPEAKMAN. 2004. Long-term cold acclimation leads to high Q(10) effects on oxygen consumption of loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
77: 209-22. (Univ Aberdeen, Sch Biol Sci, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK. E-mail: hochs@szn.it).

INOHUYE-RIVERA, R.B., A. CORDERO-TAPIA, J. ARELLANO-BLANCO & S.C. GARDNER. 2004. Learedius learedi Price, 1934 (Trematoda : Spirorchiidae), in black turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii) hearts from Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Comparative Parasitology 71: 37-41. (S. C. Gardner, Ctr Invest Biol Noroeste, Apartado Postal 128, La Paz, Baja California, CP 23090 Mexico).

IRWIN, W.P., J.H. AMY & K.J. LOHMANN. 2004. Magnetic field distortions produced by protective cages around sea turtle nests: unintended consequences for orientation and navigation? Biological Conservation 118: 117-20. (Univ N Carolina, Dept Biol, CB 3280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA. E-mail: wpirwin@mail.unc.edu).

JESSOP, T., J. SUMNER, V. LANCE & C. LIMPUS. 2004. Reproduction in shark-attacked sea turtles is supported by stress-reduction mechanisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 271: S91-S94 (Zool Soc San Diego, Ctr Reprod Endangered Species, San Diego, CA 92112 USA. E-mail: tjessop@hotmail.com).

KANNAN, P. & M. RAJAGOPALAN. 2004. Role of marine macrophytes as feed for green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Seaweeds - 2004. National Symposium and Exposition, 22-24th January 2004. Organised by Seaweeds Research and Utilization Association and Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, India. Abstract No. 24, Page 35. (E-mail: perukan@hotmail.com).

KAPURUSINGHE, T. 2003. TCP, Sri Lanka initiates a new in-situ turtle nest protection programme. Kachhapa 9:
8. Available online as above.

KATDARE, V. & R. MONE. 2003. Turtle conservation in Konkan, Maharashtra, India. Kachhapa 9: 7-8. Available online as above.

KELEZ, S., X. VELEZ-ZUAZO & C. MANRIQUE. 2003. New evidence on the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus 1758), in Peru. Ecologia Aplicada 2: 141-42. English with Spanish summary. (Grupo de Tortugas Marinas - Peru, Parque Jose de Acosta 187, Lima 17, Peru. E-mail: skelez@yahoo.com).

KELLER, J.M., J.R. KUCKLICK, C.A. HARMS & P.D. MCCLELLAN-GREEN. 2004. Organochlorine contaminants in sea turtles: Correlations between whole blood and fat. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
23: 726-38. (NIST, Hollings Marine Lab, 331 Ft. Johnson Rd., Charleston, SC 29412, USA. E-mail:jennifer.keller@noaa.gov).

KELLER, J.M., J.R. KUCKLICK & P.D. MCCLELLAN-GREEN. 2004. Organochlorine contaminants in loggerhead sea turtle blood: Extraction techniques and distribution among plasma and red blood cells. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 46: 254-64. (P. D. McClellan-Green, Duke Univ, Div Costal Syst Sci & Policy, Integrated Toxicol Program, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC 28516 USA).

KOTAS, J.E., S. DOS SANTOS, V.G. AZEVEDO, B.M.G. GALLO & P.C.R. BARATA. 2004. Incidental capture of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtles by the pelagic longline fishery off southern Brazil. Fishery Bulletin 102: 393-99. (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Rua Leopoldo Bulhoes 1480-8A, BR-21041210 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. E-mail: pbarata@alternex.com.br).

KRISHNA PILLAI, S., K.K. SURESH & P. KANNAN. 2003. Leatherback turtle released into the sea at Vizhinjam in Kerala, India. Kachhapa 9: 5-6. Available online as above.

KUROYANAGI, K., T. KONDO & T. OIKE. 2004. A cold-stunned loggerhead sea turtle in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 60: 7-12. In Japanese. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

LAM, J.C.W., S. TANABE, S.K.F. CHAN, E.K.W. YUEN, M.H.W. LAM & P.K.S. LAM. 2004. Trace element residues in tissues of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from South China Waters. Marine Pollution Bulletin 48: 174-82. (P.
K. S. Lam, City Univ Hong Kong, Ctr Coastal Pollut &Conservat, Dept Biol & Chem, Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China).

LAZAR, B., D. MARGARITOULIS & N. TVRTKOVIC. 2004. Tag recoveries of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta in the eastern Adriatic Sea: implications for conservation. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84: 475-80. (Dept. of Zoology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: Bojan.Lazar@hpm.hr).

LEE, P.L.M. & G.C. HAYS. 2004. Polyandry in a marine turtle: Females make the best of a bad job. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101: 65306535. (Univ Wales Swansea, Sch Biol Sci, Inst Environm Sustainabil, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK).

LEWISON, R.L., S.A. FREEMAN & L.B. CROWDER. 2004. Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles. Ecology Letters 7: 221-31. (Duke Univ, Marine Lab, Nicholas Sch Environm & Earth Sci, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC 28516, USA. E-mail: lcrowder@duke.edu).

LOHMANN, K.J., C.M.F. LOHMANN, L.M. EHRHART, D.A. BAGLEY & T. SWING. 2004. Geomagnetic map used in sea-turtle navigation. These migratory animals have their own equivalent of a global positioning system. Nature 428: 909
10. (Dept. of Biology, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA. E-mail: KLohmann@E-mail.unc.edu).

LUKE, K., J.A. HORROCKS, R.A. LEROUX & P.H. DUTTON. 2004. Origins of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding aggregations around Barbados, West Indies. Marine Biology 144: 799-805. (P. H. Dutton, NOAA-Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. E-mail: Peter.Dutton@noaa.gov).

LUSCHI, P., A. SALE, R. MENCACCI, G.R. HUGHES, J.R.E. LUTJEHARMS & F. PAPI. 2003. Current transport of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the ocean. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 270: S129-S132. (Univ. of Pisa, Department of Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, Via A. Volta 6, I-56126 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: luschi@discau.unipi.it).

MOREY, G., M. MARTINEZ, E. MASSUTI & J. MORANTA. 2003. The occurrence of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, around the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean Sea). Environmental Biology of Fishes
68: 425-32. (UIB, CSIC, Inst Mediterrani EstudisAvancats, Miquel Marques 21, E-07190 Esporles, Spain).

NAITO, Y. 2004. Impression on the 24th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 60: 18-19. in Japanese. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

NIGRO, O., G. YU, A.A. AGUIRRE & Y. LU. 2004. Sequencing and characterization of the full-length gene encoding the single-stranded DNA binding protein of a novel Chelonian herpesvirus. Archives of Virology 149: 337-47. (Y. Lu, Retrovirology Research Lab, Leahi Hospital, Atherton Bldg., 3675 Kilauea Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii 96816, USA. E-mail: ylu@pbrc.hawaii.edu).

OIKE, T., K. KUROYANAGI & T. KONDO. 2004. Some findings in an autopsy of a male loggerhead sea turtle. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 60: 13-17. In Japanese. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

OROS, J., A. ARENCIBIA, L. FERNANDEZ & H.E. JENSEN. 2004. Intestinal candidiasis in a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta): an immunohistochemical study. Veterinary Journal 167: 202-7. (Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Fac Vet, Unit Histol & Pathol, Transmontana SN, Las Palmas Gran Canaria 35416, Spain. E-mail: oros@cicei.ulpgc.es).

OROS, J., S. TUCKER, L. FERNANDEZ & E.R. JACOBSON. 2004. Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma in two loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 58: 245-50. (Address same as above).

OZ, M., A. ERDOGAN, Y. KASKA, S. DUSEN, A. ASLAN, H. SERT, M. YAVUZ & M. R. TUNC. 2004. Nest temperatures and sex-ratio estimates of loggerhead turtles at Patara beach on the southwestern coast of Turkey. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82: 94-101. (Akdeniz Univ, Fac Arts & Sci, Dept Biol, TR-07058 Antalya, Turkey. E-mail: mehmetoz@akdeniz.edu.tr).

PARMENTER, C.J. 2003. Plastic flipper tags are inadequate for long-term identification of the flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus). Wildlife Research 30: 519-21. (Univ Cent Queensland, Sch Biol & Environm Sci, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia. E-mail: j.parmenter@cqu.edu.au).

RAJAGOPALAN, M. & P. KANNAN. 2004. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in sea turtles from the west coast of India. Ocean Life Food & Medicine Expo 2004. International Conference & Exposition on Marine Living Resources of India For Food and Medicine, 27-29 February 2004. Organised by Tamilnadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences, MS University, University of Madras, Annamalai University and Aquaculture Foundation of India, Chennai, India. Abstracts pp. 87. (E-mail: perukan@hotmail.com).

READ, M.R. 2004. Evaluation of the use of anesthesia and analgesia in reptiles. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 224: 547-52. (Vet Emergency Med., 920 Yonge St., STE 117, Toronto, ON M4W 3C7, Canada).

SALMON, M., T.T. JONES & K.W. HORCH. 2004. Ontogeny of diving and feeding behavior in juvenile seaturtles: leatherback seaturtles (Dermochelys coriacea L.) and green seaturtles (Chelonia mydas L.) in the Florida Current. Journal of Herpetology 38: 36-43. (Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Box 3091, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991, USA. E-mail: salmon@fau.edu).

SAZIMA, C., A. GROSSMAN, C. BELLINI & I. SAZIMA. 2004. The moving gardens: reef fishes grazing, cleaning & following green turtles. Cybium 28: 47-53. (E-mail: isazima@unicamp.br).

SAZIMA, I., A. GROSSMAN & C. SAZIMA. 2004. Hawksbill turtles visit moustached barbers: cleaning symbiosis between Eretmochelys imbricata and the shrimp Stenopus hispidus. Biota Neotropica 4: 1-6. (E-mail: isazima@unicamp.br).

SEA TURTLE ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN. 2003. Report on the 14th Japanese Sea Turtle Conference in Toyohashi, 28-30 Nov., 2003. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 59: 5-6. In Japanese. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

SEMINOFF, J.A., S. KARL, T. SCHWARTZ & A. RESENDIZ. 2003. Hybridization of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Pacific Ocean: Indication of an absence of gender bias in the directionality of crosses. Bulletin of Marine Science 73: 643-52. (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAANMFS, 8604 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, CA 92038, USA. E-mail: Jeffrey.Seminoff@noaa.gov).

SEMINOFF, J.A., A. RESENDIZ, B. RESENDIZ & W.J. NICHOLS. 2004. Occurrence of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Gulf of California, Mexico: evidence of life-history variation in the Pacific Ocean. Herpetological Review 35: 24-27. (Address as above).

SHANKER, K., B. PANDAV & H.V. ANDREWS. 2003. Sea turtle conservation: Research and management techniques. A GOI - UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India: 52 pp. Available from: Wildlife Institute of India, P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India. (E-mail: undpturtle@wii.gov.in).

SHANKER, K., B. PANDAV & B. C. CHOUDHURY. 2003. Sea turtle conservation: Population census and monitoring. A GOI - UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/ Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India: 56 pp. (Address as above).

SINGH, A., H. ANDREWS & K. SHANKER. 2003. Report on the GOI - UNDP Sea Turtle Workshop &Andaman & Nicobar Island, India. Kachhapa 9: 19-20. Available online as above.

TRIPATHY, B., K. SHANKER & B.C. CHOUDHURY. 2003. Important nesting habitats of olive ridley turtles Lepidochelys olivacea along the Andhra Pradesh coast of eastern India. Oryx 37: 454-63. (K. Shanker, ATREE, 659 5th A Main Rd., Bangalore, Karnataka 560024, India. E-mail: kartik@atree.org).

TSUTSUMI, K. & H. HASHIMOTO. 2003. Record of olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) from Hachijo Island, Japan. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 59: 4.

VENIZELOS, L.E. 2003. Mediterranean Coastal Tourism: the eighth plague hits the 21st century. Sustainable Mediterranean (Special Issue on Tourism). Newsletter of MIO/ECSDE, the EEB and the RAED. Issue 31: 8-9. (MEDASSET, 1c Licavitou Str., 10672 Athens, Greece. E-mail: medasset@hol.gr).

WAKATSUKI, M. 2004. Pound net fishery in Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan - management and operation. Umigame Newsletter of Japan 60: 2-6. In Japanese with English summary. (E-mail: newsletter@umigame.org).

WRIGHT, B. & B. MOHANTY. 2003. Editorial: Showing the way: mass hatching of olive ridleys in Rushikulya, Orissa. Kachhapa 9: 1-2. Available online as above.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

AUREGGI, M. 2003. Conservation assessment of the sea turtle nesting beaches of Belek (Turkey). Report to the 23rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention). Commissioned by MEDASSET. 15 pp. Naucrates, Onlus, Via Corbetta 11, 22063 Cantu (CO), Italy. (E-mail: naucrates12@hotmail.com).

HILTERMAN, M.L. & E. GOVERSE. 2004. Annual Report on the 2003 Leatherback Turtle Research and Monitoring Project in Suriname. World Wildlife Fund - Guianas Forests and Environmental Conservation Project (WWF-GFECP) Technical Report of the Netherlands Committee for IUCN (NC-IUCN), Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 21 pp. (E-mail: edo.goverse@iucn.nl, maartje.hilterman@iucn.nl).

MARCOVALDI, M.A., G. SALES, B. GIFFONI, G.A. MAURUTTO & M. BUZIN. 2003. Sea turtles incidental capture by fishing activities. Assessment & Mitigation Measures Project # 2002-0084-005. Final Technical Report. Executed by Fundacao Pro-Tamar. Supported by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - NFWF: 60 pp.

UNEPWORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE. 2003. Report on the status and conservation of the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. CMS/ScC12/Doc.5 Attach 3: 62 pp.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

HUGHES, K.M. 2004. Redesigning renourishment: Guidelines and priorities that create a better beach for sea turtles, human users and the goals of beach renourishment. M.A. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville: 207 pp.

KANNAN, P. 2003. Studies on the biology and incidental catch of sea turtles in selected centres along the Indian Coast. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Madras, India: 122 pp. (E-mail: perukan@hotmail.com).

RIVALAN, P. 2004. La dynamique des populations de Tortues Luths de Guyane Française: Recherche des facteurs impliques et application a la mise en place de strategies de conservation. Ph.D. Dissertation. Universite de Paris XI Orsay: 249 pp. French. (E-mail: rivalan@mnhn.fr).