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Number 126 October 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

Kemp's Ridley Hatchlings Produced and Nests Laid Annually Should be Posted on Government Agency Web Sites - Charles W. Caillouet, Jr.

The IUCN'S New Clothes: An Update on the Dhamra - Turtle Saga - Janaki Lenin, Ashish Fernandes, Aarthi Sridhar, B.C. Choudhury, Jack Frazier, Sanjiv Gopal, Areeba Hamid, Sandra Kloff, Biswajit Mohanty, Bivash Pandav, Sudarshan Rodriguez, Basudev Tripathy, Romulus Whitaker, Sejal Worah, Belinda Wright & Kartik Shanker

Articles

Olive Ridley Lepidochelys olivacea Nesting in Peru: The Southernmost Records in the Eastern Pacific - Shaleyla Kelez, Ximena Velez-Zuazo, Fernando Angulo & Camelia Manrique

Habitat Choices Made by Hatchling and Juvenile Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) and Loggerheads (Caretta caretta) - Morgan Michelle Smith & Michael Salmon

Leatherback Nesting in Tomatal, Oaxaca, Mexico in 2007/2008 - F.Vannini & P.A. Rosales Jaillet

Genetic Characterization of Loggerhead Turtles from Bycatch Reports and Uncommon Nesting Sites - Estéfane Cardinot Reis, Luciano Soares Soares & Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu

IUCN-MTSG Quarterly Report

IUCN-MTSG Marine Turtle Specialist Group Quarterly Report: Progress from the Fifth Burning Issues Workshop (BI-5) - Roderic B. Mast, Bryan Wallace, Brian J. Hutchinson, Milani Chaloupka, Alan B. Bolten & Nicolas J. Pilcher

Letter to the Editors

Ridleys in Orissa: another reply to Mohanty Hejmadi

Obituary

Ed B. Drane (1949-2009) - Sally R. Murphy & Barbara Schroeder

Announcements

The International Sea Turtle Society Awards

30th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation - Kartik Shanker

Sea Turtle Course at Duke University, Summer 2010

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Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following individuals: Anita Gordon, Sara Maxwell, Paulo Barata, Pierter Borkent, Michael Salmon & Jeanette Wyneken, Arthur Kopelman and organisations: Conservation International, International Sea Turtle Society, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, Sirtrack Ltd., US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Wildlife Computers. The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

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