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Marine Turtle Newsletter 24:17, © 1983

Olive Ridleys in India

N. Mrosovsky

A fair number of letters have been written to Prime Minister Gandhi expressing concern about the management of olive ridleys on the east coast of India (see Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 24, 1982). If there are readers of this newsletter who have not already written to Mrs Gandhi, they are asked again to write. With a Prime Minister favourable toward conservation, and still turtles there left to conserve, it is important that the authorities there be made aware of world-wide efforts to conserve sea turtles and of what has happened to the arribadas of olive and Kemp's ridleys in Mexico. Letters should be sent to Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, South Block, Central Secretariat, New Delhi 110011, India. Please write soon and send a copy of your letter to the editor of this newsletter.