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Number 121 July 2008

Editors: Lisa M. Campbell Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University 135 Duke Marine Lab Road Beaufort, NC 28516 USA Matthew H. Godfrey NC Sea Turtle Project NC Wildlife Resources Commission 1507 Ann St. Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Founding Editor: Nicholas Mrosovsky University of Toronto, Canada

Editorial Board: Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti) George Balazs Angela Formia Colin Limpus Nicholas J. Pilcher Manjula Tiwari Kartik Shanker Jeanette Wyneken

Articles

Trade Secrets: A Ten Year Overview of the Illegal Import of Sea Turtle Products into the US - Susan M. Rice & M. Katherine Moore

In-Water Observations of Recently Released Juvenile Hawksbills (Eretmochelys imbricata) - Stephen G. Dunbar, Lidia Salinas & Larry Stevenson

Special Theme Section: Dharma Port Development, Orissa, India

Trade India's Dhamra Port Controversy Heats Up Again - Douglas Hykle

Letter to IUCN From Conservationists and NGOs in India

Response from IUCN: Dhamra Port Project: The Role of the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Continuing Controversy Over Ridleys in Orissa: Cui bono? - N. Mrosovsky

My way or the highway!!! Where corporations and conservationists meet - Kartik Shanker

Membership Excluder Devices - Janaki Lenin & Rom Whitaker

IUCN-TATA Partnership - Undermining Conservation - Ashish Fernandes

Dhamra Port: How Environmental Regulatory Failure Fuels Corporate Irreverence - Sudarshan Rodriguez & Aarthi Sridhar

The MTSG and Its Involvement in the Dhamra Port, Orissa, India - Nicolas Pilcher

The Dhamra Port Issue: Some Views From the Chair of the IUCN SSC - Holly T. Dublin

Dhamra Port: The Other Perspective - Amlan Dutta

Why do they do that? Ruminations on the Dhamra drama - J. Frazier

Meeting Reports

South Atlantic Sea Turtle Workshop, Praia do Forte, Brazil (5-12 May 2008) - Manjula Tiwari & Alan B. Bolten

Announcements

Second Announcement: 29th Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Brisbane, Australia, 17-19 February 2009 - Colin Limpus & Chloe Schauble

Recognising Excellence: The ISTS Awards - Brendan J. Godley

IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group Quarterly Update - July 2008 - Brian J. Hutchinson, Roderic B. Mast & Nicolas J. Pilcher

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