Number 163

April/July 2021

Pacific green turtle observed nesting on Hermosa Beach, Uvita de Osa, Costa Rica. See pages 25-27. Photo: Felipe Thomas.

Editorial

Substantial Reduction in Annual Production of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Hatchlings on Beaches of Tamaulipas, Mexico May Allow Abundance of Adults to Increase - Charles Wax Caillouet, Jr.

Article

War on Polyethylene Terephthalate. Liechtenstein Post’s Anti-plastic Campaign - Indraneil Das

Occurrence of Sea Turtles on Niterói City Beaches, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Beatriz Guimarães Gomes, Alícia Bertoloto Tagliolatto & Suzana Machado Guimarães

Juvenile Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Head-started in Cuba Recaptured in Florida - Felix Moncada, Gonzalo Nodarse, Leonardo Valido, Lynne Byrd, Gretchen Lovewell, Jess Blackburn & Amber Lea Kincaid

Southernmost Record of an Immature Green Turtle Chelonia mydas in the Maracaibo Lake System, Venezuela - Ninive Espinoza-Rodriguez & Héctor Barrios-Garrido

Evaluation of Marine Debris Ingestion in Sea Turtles around Okinawa Island, Japan - Takahide Sasai, Masakatsu Kino, Kei Miyamoto, Haruna Okabe, Konomi Maeda, Shingo Fukada, Ken Maeda, Nozomi Kobayashi, Takahiro Kobuchi, Masae Makabe & Isao Kawazu

First Nesting Report for Pacific Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Hermosa Beach, Uvita de Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica - Oscar Brenes Arias, Felipe Thomas Álvarez & Graciela Pulido Petit

Establishment of Mersin University Sea Turtle Application and Research Center (Me.U.DEKUYAM) in Mersin, Turkey - Serap Ergene, Yasemin Kaçar, Aşkın Hasan Uçar, Cemil Aymak, Mahmut Ergene & Oğuzhan Demir

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