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‘Sea-turtle Faces Extinction in India’: Crying ‘wolf’ or Saving Sea-turtles?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

John G. Frazier
Affiliation:
Department of Zoological Research, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20008, U.S.A.

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Type
Short Communications: Reports, Comments, News, Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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