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Number 106 October 2004

Editors: Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick Marine Turtle Research Group School of Biological Sciences University of Exeter Prince of Wales Road Exeter EX4 PS4, UK

Editorial Board: Nicholas Mrosovsky Karen L. Eckert George Balazs Lisa Campbell Angela Formia Matthew H. Godfrey Colin Limpus Roderic B. Mast Nicholas J. Pilcher Manjula Tiwari Kartik Shanker Roldán Valverde Jeanette Wyneken

Editorial:

Conceptual Problems with the IUCN Red Listing Assessment for the Green Turtle: Move Over Raine Island - N. Mrosovsky

Guest Editorial:

Sea Turtles, Red Listing, and the Need for Regional Assessments - Jeffrey A. Seminoff

Articles:

The Trade of Marine Turtles in the Toliara region, South West Madagascar. - Ryan. C.J. Walker, Emily Roberts & Eibleis Fanning

Notes:

Rat Eradication as Part of a Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Conservation Programme in Indonesia. - Guntram G. Meier & Karen Varnham

Fibropapillomatosis and Multiple Fibromas in a Green Turtle from the South Coast of Pernambuco State, Brazil - Fábio Luiz da Cunha Brito, Frederico Celso Lyra Maia, Lucila Maria O. De França, Alessandra Ribeiro de Albuquerque, Rodrigo A.M. Santos, Maria Antonieta M. Cavalcanti & Elisângela S.G. Guimarães

First Record of a Leatherback Turtle in Syria - ALan F. Rees, Adib Saad & Mohammad Jony

Meeting Reports:

The International Sea Turtle Society Celebrates its First Annual Planning Retreat in Shepherdstown, West Virginia USA (August 16-19, 2004) - Roderic B. Mast

Summary of the Sixth and Announcement for the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Grupo Tortuguero / Sea Turtle Conservation Network “A Sea Turtle Revolution” (Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 28-30 January, 2005) - Raquel Briseño & Wallace J. Nichols

Meeting Report: RETOMALA XI (Ostional, Cost Rica, 18-21 February 2004) - Comité Organizador RETOMALA 2004

Two Sea Turtle Symposia Held in Costa Rica and Galápagos for Local Students (June 2004) - Julie Osborn

IUCN MTSG Update:

IUCN/Marine Turtle Specialist Group News - Roderic B. Mast, Nicolas J. Pilcher & Brian J. Hutchinson

Announcements:

25th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (Savannah, Georgia, USA, January 16-23, 2005) - Thane Wibbels

Turtle Point: The First Marine Turtle Rehabilitation Center in Italy - Flegra Bentivegna

The Marine Turtle Conservation Act, a Sea Turtle Triumph - Marydele Donnelly & Earl Possardt

Proceedings On-line: First Meeting on Research and Conservation of Sea Turtles in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (ASO), 3-4 October 2003, Montevideo, Uruguay - Alejandro Fallabrino

A Call for the Conservation of the Leatherback Turtles

MCS Limits Applications to Turtle Conservation Fund

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