Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	GOI-UNDP Sea Turtle Project
Other Authors:	Shanker, Kartik, Choudhury, B. C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Hyderabad, India : Universities Press ; [2006]
Series:	Biodiversity library.
Subjects:	Sea turtles > South Asia. Sea turtles > Indian Ocean Region. Sea turtles > Conservation > South Asia. Sea turtles > Conservation > Indian Ocean Region. Olive ridley turtle > India. Turtle excluder devices > India.

Table of Contents:

Marine turtles in the Indian subcontinent : a brief history / Kartik Shanker and B.C. Choudhury
Turtle trekker : Satish Bhaskar / Rom Whitaker
Background and scope of the GOI-UNDP Sea Turtle Project / S.C. Sharma
Distribution and status of marine turtles in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands / Harry V. Andrews, Shreyas Krishnan, and Paridosh Biswas
Marine turtles of Tamil Nadu / S. Bhupathy and S. Saravanan
Sea turtles and their nesting habitats along the Andhra Pradesh coast / Basudev Tripathy, Kartik Shanker, and B.C. Choudhury
Sea turtle nesting habitats on the coast of Orissa / Bivash Pandav, B.C. Choudhury, and C.S. Kar
Marine turtles of West Bengal / B. Roy Chowdhury, S.K. Das, and Partha Sarathi Ghose
Sea turtles and their habitats in the Lakshadweep Islands / Basudev Tripathy, Kartik Shanker, and B.C. Choudhury
Sea turtles of Kerala / N. Dileepkumar and C. Jayakumar
Sea turtles along the Karnataka coast / B.K. Sharath
Sea turtles of Maharashtra and Goa / Varad Giri and Naresh Chaturvedi
Sea turtles and their nesting habitats in Gujarat / S.F. Wesley Sunderraj, Justus Joshua, and V. Vijaya Kumar
Status and conservation of marine turtles in Sri Lanka / Thushan Kapurusinghe
Marine turtles of Sri Lanka : a historical account / Anslem de Silva
Status and conservation of marine turtles in Bangladesh / S.M.A. Rashid and M. Zahirul Islam
Sea turtles of Pakistan / Mohummad Tahir Qureshi
Marine fishery-related mortality of sea turtles in India : an overview / M. Rajagopalan, K. Vijayakumaran, and E. Vivekanandan
Beyond TEDs : the TED controversy from the perspective of Orissa's trawling industry / Chitta Ranjan Behera
Design and development of the TED for Indian fisheries / M.R. Boopendranath ... [et al.]
Implementation of the TED in Andhra Pradesh / O. Bhavani Sankar and M. Ananth Raju
Community-based conservation of sea turtle nesting sites in India : some case studies / Roshni Kutty
Operation Kachhapa : an NGO initiative for sea turtle conservation in Orissa / Belinda Wright and Biswajit Mohanty
Laws and marine turtle conservation in India / Sanjay Upadhyay and Videh Upadhyay
International instruments and marine turtle conservation / Sali J. Bache and John G. Frazier
A review of olive ridley nesting and mortality in Orissa / Kartik Shanker, Bivash Pandav, and B.C. Choudhury
Migration and movement of olive ridleys along the east coast of India / Bivash Pandav and B.C. Choudhury
Characterisation of olive ridley nesting beaches in Orissa using remote sensing / D.K. Rout and G. Behera
The effect of rookery geomorphology on olive ridley nesting in Gahirmatha, Orissa / Ganesh Prusty and Sujata Dash
Coastal pollution in West Bengal : implications for olive ridley turtles / Madhumita Mukherjee.