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Recent Publications by Olive Ridley Project Scientists

• Dunbar, S. G., Hudgins, J., & Jean, C. (2016) ‘Meeting Report for the 1st Photo ID Workshop, 36th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Lima, Peru, 29 February 2016.’ Marine Turtle Newsletter 151 (2016): 32.
• Hancock, J., Choma, J., Mainye, L., Stelfox, M., & Hudgins, J. (2020) ‘Photo Identification as a Tool to Study Sea Turtle Populations in Kenyan Marine Protected Areas‘. Society for Conservation Biology, October 2020.
• Hudgins, J., Ali, and Mancini (2017) ‘Marine Turtles of the Maldives: A field identification and conduct guide‘. An IUCN Publication funded by USAID. (2017)
• Hudgins, J., Hudgins, E., Ali, K., and Mancini, A. (2017) ‘Citizen Science Surveys Elucidate Key Foraging and Nesting Habitat for Two Endangered Marine Turtle Species Within the Republic of Maldives‘. Herpetology Notes, volume 10: 463-471 (2017) 
• Köhnk, S., Brown, R. & Liddell, A. (2021) ‘Finding of a two-headed green turtle embryo during nest monitoring in Baa Atoll, Maldives’.  Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 88(1), a1940, https://doi.org/10.4102/ojvr. v88i1.1940
• Köhnk, S., Petros, C., Lomas, C., Riyad, E. M., Shameel, I., et al (2021) ‘Stowaways: Marine Leeches Infecting Olive Ridley Sea Turtles Entangled in Ghost Nets in Maldivian Waters‘. Comparative Parasitology 88(2): 169-176 (December 2021)
• Lomas, C., British Cheolina Group (2020) ‘Conservation and rehabilitation of sea turtles in the Maldives‘. Testudo Vol. 9 No. 2, October 2020
• Stelfox, M. (2018) ‘Ghost Gear, The Silent Killers in Our Oceans‘. Current Conservation Magazine Vol. 12 Issue 2, 2018:1 8-19
• Stelfox, M. (2015) ‘Ghost nets of the Indian Ocean – Olive Ridley Project‘. IUCN Maldives Marine Newsletter Issue 2 August 2015: 18
• Stelfox, M. (2015) ‘The impact of ghost nets on marine species in the Maldives‘. IUCN Maldives Marine Newsletter Issue 3 January 2015: 13-14
• Stelfox, M., Bulling, M., Sweet, M. (2019) ‘Untangling the origin of ghost gear within the Maldivian archipelago and its impact on olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) populations‘. Endangered Species Research. 10.3354/esr00990.  (2019)
• Stelfox, M., Burian, A., Shanker, K., Rees, A. F., Jean, C., Willson, M. S., Manik, N. A., Sweet, M. (2020) ‘Tracing the origin of olive ridley turtles entangled in ghost nets in the Maldives: A phylogeographic assessment of populations at risk‘. Biological Conservation, Volume 245, May 2020, 108499
• Stelfox, M., Hudgins, J., Ali, K., Anderson R.C. (2015) ‘High mortality of Olive Ridley Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) in ghost nets in the central Indian Ocean.’ BOBLME-2015-Ecology-14 (2015): 1-23.
• Stelfox, M., Hudgins, J., & Sweet, M. (2016) ‘A review of ghost gear entanglement amongst marine mammals, reptiles and elasmobranchs.’ Marine Pollution Bulletin 1.111 (2016): 6-17
• Stelfox, M., Lett, C., Reid, G., Souch, G., Sweet, M. (2020) ‘Minimum drift times infer trajectories of ghost nets found in the Maldives‘. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 154, May 2020, 111037
• Stelfox, M., Martin-Cereceda, M., Vahed, K., Hudgins, J., Köhnk, S., Iqbal, U., Shameel, I., Hancock, J.M. and Sweet, M. (2021) ‘The Olive Ridley Project (ORP): A successful example of how to engage researchers, conservation practitioners and civil society’. Research for All, 5 (2), 448–73. https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.05.2.17 
• Sweet, M., Stelfox, M. Lamb,J. (2019) ‘Plastics and shallow coral reefs. Synthesis of the science for policy-makers‘. United Nations Environment Program (2019)Veríssimo, D., Vieira, S., Monteiro, D., Hancock, J., Nuno, A. (2020) ‘Audience research as a cornerstone of demand management interventions for illegal wildlife products: Demarketing sea turtle meat and eggs‘. Conservation Science and Practice (16 January 2020)

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