General Aspects - Current and Further Perspectives; Development of Aquatic Bird Indicators of Sublethal Mercury Exposure and Risk in Wild Populations of Water Birds in the Everglades;The Importance of Ecological Traits in Assessing Seabird Vulnerability to Environmental Risks;A Review on Levels and Distribution Pattern of Organochlorine Pesticides in Eggs of Wild Birds in India;Impacts of Agricultural Intensification on Farmland Birds and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Seed Treatments;Teratological Effects of Pesticides in Reptiles - A Review;Combined Impact of Pesticides and other Environmental Stressors on Reptile Diversity in Irrigation Poinds Compared to other Animal Taxa;Current Progress in Developing Standardized Methods for Reptilian Toxicity Testing to Inform Ecological Risk Assessment;Morphological and Molecular Evidence of Active Principle Glyphosphate Toxicity on the Liver of the Field Lizard Podarcis siculus;What is Caiman latirostris teaching us about Endocrine Disruptors;The Broad Snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris): A Model Species for Environmental Pesticide Contamination Assessment through Molecular Markers; Epilogue and Final Remarks.