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Call for Articles

Kachhapa, the newsletter, was initiated to provide a forum for exchange of information on sea turtle biology and conservation, management and education and awareness activities in the south Asia, particularly the Indian subcontinent. The newsletter also intends to cover related aspects such as fisheries and issues related to coastal habitats. For the moment, Kachhapa will come out two to three times a year. We request all our contributors to continue sending us information from their part of the subcontinent, including articles (which will be peer reviewed), short notes, letters and announcements. We welcome casual notes, anecdotal accounts and snippets of information. Online or electronic submissions are encouraged.

Help us with our Mailing List

Since this newsletter hopes to serve as a link for coastal and marine conservation, the more people we can reach, the more effective it will be. You can help by passing the newsletter around to people and organizations who are interested, and by helping us build up our mailing list. Please send us names and addresses of individuals, NGOs, research institutions, schools and colleges and anyone else who would be interested in receiving Kachhapa. Electronic versions of past and present issues of Kachhapa can also be received by email automatically. For subscription services, visit <http://www.kachhapa.org/subscriptions>.

Opinion

We have introduced a new section in the newsletter. In addition to information and articles, we now invite your opinion on subjects related to turtles, their habitats and conservation.

Bibliography

We plan to publish a complete bibliography of literature on sea turtles in the Indian subcontinent in our next issue. Meanwhile, the bibliography will be available at our website. We would welcome any additional references that we have missed and copies of articles, papers or reports that are absent from the bibliography.

Web Site

The web site is available at:
<http://www.kachhapa.org/> and features:
HTML and pdf versions of all newsletters featuring a full text search; Subscriptions to receive the newsletter or just the table of contents directly in your email; Searchable database of sea turtle researchers, conservationists and organizations in the south Asia region; News and articles from the south Asia region.

Kartik Shanker, Editor, Kachhapa, Wildlife Institute of India, PO Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001. India. (Email: editor@kachhapa.org) & Karthik Ram, Webmaster, Kachhapa.org. Dept Biology, University of New Orleans, (E-mail:karthik@ecocrawler.org).