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Number 125 July 2009

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

Flags Reduce Sea Turtle Nest Predation by Foxes in NE Brazil - Guilherme O. Longo, Fernando D. Pazeto, João A. G. de Abreu & Sergio R. Floeter

Acclimating Captive Hawksbills to Sea Prior to Release - Barbara Carr Whitman

Inter-nesting Dive and Surface Behaviour of Green Turtles, Chelonia mydas, at Raine Island, Northern Great Barrier Reef - I.P. Bell, J. Seymour, R. Fitzpatrick & J. Hogarth

Sea Turtles Tagging in Libya - Abdulmaula Hamza, Al Mokhtar Saied, Bashir Swayeb & Saleh Deryag

Shifting Patterns of Nocturnal Emergence Events of Nesting Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta caretta) - Ryan Welsh & Anton D. Tucker

Notes

Foraging by a Gravid Green Turtle During the Internesting Interval in Guadeloupe, French West Indies - Eric Delcroix, F. Leveque, J. Coudret, S. Bonotto, F. Créantor, M. Charrieau & S. Guilloux

A Leatherback Turtle Encountered in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines - R.A.F.Salinas, N.B. Ramoso Jr. and L.D. Rodriguez

IUCN-MTSG Quarterly Report

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

Announcements

Call for Abstracts on Sea Turtle Headstarting Projects - Russell Burke

2nd Announcement: 30th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation, 27th – 29th April, 2010 in Goa, India - Kartik Shanker

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