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Number 124 April 2009

Editors: Lisa M. Campbell Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University 135 Duke Marine Lab Road Beaufort, NC 28516 USA Matthew H. Godfrey NC Sea Turtle Project NC Wildlife Resources Commission 1507 Ann St. Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Founding Editor: Nicholas Mrosovsky University of Toronto, Canada

Editorial Board: Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti) George Balazs Angela Formia Colin Limpus Nicholas J. Pilcher Manjula Tiwari Kartik Shanker Jeanette Wyneken

Editorials

The Continuing shame of Orissa - Eric Hawk

A Little Learning... The Price of Ignoring Politics and History - Kartik Shanker, BC Choudhury,Ashish Fernandes, Sanjiv Gopal, Areeba Hamid, Chandrasekhar Kar, Suresh Kumar, Janaki Lenin, Biswajit Mohanty, Bivash Pandav, Sudarshan Rodriguez, Aarthi Sridhar, Wesley Sunderraj, Basudev Tripathy, Romulus Whitaker, Sejal Worah & Belinda Wright

Articles

The Marine Turtle Product Trade in Viet Nam - Daniel Stiles

Sea turtles on Clipperton Island (Eastern Tropical Pacific) - Olivier Lorvelec, Michel Pascal & Jacques Fretey

Unexpected Visitors to the Eastern Caribbean: Loggerheads Nest at Buck Island Reef National Monument - Clayton Pollock, Ian Lundgren, Lindsay Albright, Amber Avestruz, Julia Polan & Zandy Hillis-Starr

Eight Nests Recorded for a Loggerhead Turtle Within One Season - Anton D. Tucker

Meeting Report

Report From The Workshop on Marine Turtle Conservation For The Gulf And Guadeloupe, Barr Al-Jissah, Oman, 1-3 December 2008 - Nancy Papathanasopoulou

IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group Quarterly Update - Brian J. Hutchinson, Roderic B. Mast & Nicolas J. Pilcher

Book Reviews

Biology and Conservation of Ridley Sea Turtles - Manjula Tiwari

Caretta the Top Turtle - Kathleen Martin

Announcement

30th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation Goa, India 27th – 29th April, 2010 - Kartik Shanker

NEWS AND LEGAL BRIEFS

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