Plume Verte, Cayenne, French Guiana
Tortues marines
de Guyane
Sea turtles of
French Guiana
Jacques FRETEY (scientific co-ordination)
ISBN 2-95156-682-4
published Mar-06
30 x 25 cm hardback,
191 pages, full colour throughout
Online Price £45.75 (post-free in the UK)
- Five (of the World's eight) species of turtle breed on the coast of French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname
- Thirty-three scientists and conservationists who have worked in this area have co-operated to produce this beautiful and important book
- Each species has three pages covering identification, biology, world distribution (map) and main nesting sites
- Chapters on: Breeding, , Open ocean movements, commensalism and diseases, natural enemies, Turtles and man, and Conservation
- Hundreds of remarkable and truly beautiful photographs