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Number 61   April 1993

Editors: Karen L. Eckert & Scott A. Eckert Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute 1700 South Shores Road San Diego, California 92109 USA

Editorial Board: Nat B. Frazer Nicholas Mrosovsky David W. Owens Peter C.H. Pritchard James I. Richardson

Editorial:

Guest Editorial: CITES Criteria for Sea Turtle Ranching - James Perran Ross

Articles:

Thirty Years of Sea Turtle Conservation in South Africa: 1963 - 1992 - George Hughes

Coccidiosis: A Fatal Disease of Free-Living Green Turtles, Chelonia Mydas - A. N. Gordon, W. R. Kelly, and R. J. G. Lester

Victory! TEDs Required in all U.S. Shrimp Trawls - Deborah Crouse

Olive Ridleys Threatened in India: Letters Needed - Harry Andrews

Care and Treatment of Loggerhead Sea Turtles from the Gulf of Naples, Italy - Flegra Bentivegna, Paola Cirino and Alfonso Toscano

Satellites used to Study the Oceanic Migrations of Hawaii's Green Sea Turtles

First Reports of Leatherback Turtles Tagged in Mexico and Recaptured in Chile - René Marquez M. and Aristoteles Villanueva O.

Osa Sea Turtle Study - Dana Drake

Conservation Efforts for Chelonia Mydas in Turkey - Alice Carswell

Sea Turtles: A Vanishing Resource in American Samoa - Peter Craig

1991 Survey of Marine Turtles Nesting in Trinidad and Tobago

Private Sea Turtle Conservation Initiative at El Banquito Beach, Venezuela - Hedelvy J. Guada, Vicente Vera and Pedro Vernet P.

Olive Ridley Turtles Observed with Notches Cut in Marginal Scutes in Ostional, Costa Rica, 1992 - Juan Carlos Castro and Marta Arauz

Marine Turtle Conservation Action Plan For Venezuela - Genaro Solé S.

Earthtrust's Sea Turtle Preservation Initiative - Jim Logan

13th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation - Sally R. Murphy

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Announcements:

Sea Turtle On-Line Bibliography - Alan B. Bolten, Karen A. Bjorndal, and Peter J. Eliazar

CTURTLE: An Email Information Network for Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation - Alan B. Bolten and Karen A. Bjorndal

Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge: An Update - S. Jean Cantwell

Requests for Tag Information

Aves Island Green Turtles for Adoption!

Scuba Divers and Boaters Can Help Protect Sea Turtles

Volunteers Needed for Sea Turtle Projects in Greece

General

Folklore and Sea Turtles

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Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from Erik Martin (Port St. Lucie, FL), Diana Gardener (Medford, OR), Belinda Woodiel (Minnville, TN), George Pisani (Lawrence, KS), Wilma Katz (Englewood, FL), Jeanette Wyneken and Mike Salmon (Boca Raton, FL), Robert Shoop (Kingston, RI), Earl Green (Silver Spring, MD), Richard Byles (Albuquerque, NM), Thomas Ross (Silver Spring, MD), Therese Conant (Pine Knoll Shores, NC), Donna O'Daniel (Salem, OR), Barbara Raney (Ocala, FL), Mark Laubach (Mt. View, CA), Gail Krueger (Savannah, GA), Robert Guess (Santa Barbara, CA), Zandy Hillis (St. Croix, USVI), Malcolm Stark (Cape Coast, Ghana), Matthew Godfrey (Don Mills, Ontario), John Ryan (Ottawa, Ontario), Hedelvy Guada (Caracas, Venezuela), Karger Libri (Frankfurt, Germany), Rod Jackson (Kuwait), Sacharuna Foundation, Cayman Turtle Farm Ltd., The Chelonia Institute, WWF-US, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The Spanish edition is supported by Confederación Universitaria Centroamericana (CSUCA), WWF-US, Conservation Inter-national, and USFWS, and is produced by Susana Salas, Coordinadora, Noticiero de Tortugas Marinas, CSUCA, Programa de Tortugas Marinas-UCR, Apdo. 271-2050, San Pedro, Costa Rica.

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