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Marine Turtle Newsletter 101:46, © 2003

Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online

Kachhapa 8 Now Available

Kartik Shanker1 & Karthik Ram2
1Editor, Kachhapa, Scientist, Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (Email: editor@kachhapa.org, kartikshanker@vsnl.net)
2Webmaster, Kachhapa.org. Dept Biology, University of New Orleans, (E-mail: karthik.ram@uno.edu)

Kachhapa is a newsletter for sea turtle conservation and management in the Indian ocean and south Asia. The newsletter provides a forum for exchange of information on sea turtle biology and conservation, management and education and awareness activities in the south Asia Indian subcontinent. The newsletter includes articles (which will be peer reviewed), short notes, letters and announcements. Online or electronic submissions are encouraged.

Kachhapa 8 is a special issue on Turtle Excluder Devices in India. It includes an editorial which reviews the TED in India, articles on implementation of TEDs in Andhra Pradesh, the state immediately south of Orissa, construction and installation of the indigenous CIFT TED, and reports on a TED workshop in Orissa. The issue also includes a review of thirty years of sea turtle conservation in Madras, and articles on education programs in Goa and community based conservation in Madras.

Kachhapa 8 is now available as PDF files and html at the website www.kachhapa.org. A new feature of the website is that individual articles are also available as PDF files. The size of PDF files of individual articles as well as the complete newsletter are indicated, so that users can download if its appropriate for their bandwidth. Hard copies have been mailed to current subscribers. If anyone would like to be added to the mailing list, or if your address has changed recently, please send an email to the editor with your current postal address.

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. 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/>.

Kartik Shanker, Editor, Kachhapa, Scientist, Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (Email: editor@kachhapa.org, kartikshanker@vsnl.net) & Karthik Ram, Webmaster, Kachhapa.org. Dept Biology, University of New Orleans, (E-mail: karthik.ram@uno.edu)