IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
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Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 56 - 98 (October 1996)

Note from the Editor
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The issue 13/2of the IUCN Otter Specialist Group Bulletin is printed due in time. The move to the new University of Veterinary Medicine is finished and in the moment the financial situation of the Bulletin has improved. The publication of this issue is sponsored by the Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung - BMWF. For their contribution to my personal printing costs of the last issue 13/1 I would like to thank (in alphabetical order) and hope not to forget someone: Rainer Allgöwer, Motokazu Ando, Hermann Ansorge, Koen van den Berge, Edwin Brussee, Dietrich Dolch, James Fairley, Rosemary Green, Xavier Grémillet, Lee Harding, Hélene Jaques, Jan Kadlecik, Andreas Kranz, Otter Zentrum Hankensbüttel, Claus Reuther, Hiroshi Sasaki, Scott Shannon, Franz Suchentrunk, Trebon Otter Foundation, Werner Tschirch, Heike Weber, James Williams, Paul Yoxon - IOSF and two anonymus contributors. The Institute for Wildlife Research and Nature Protection, Klagenfurt paid the main part of the last issues’ postage.

In this issue you will find four reviewed articles and another two are already in the state of review. For articles there will be no deadline anymore as this causes only confusion and may result in delayed printing. Articles are welcome all year around and will be fully reviewed by at least two reviewers. Reports will be published without a review system as we had it the last years but authors are requested to keep the deadline for reports in their mind.

For their help in searching literature, editing and printing of this issue I would like to mention the “Otter Bulletin Team” Barbara Gutleb-Rainer (Vienna), Hans van den Berg (Wageningen) and Els Hoogsteede-Veens (Grafisch Service Centrum Van Gils, Wageningen). Without their efforts the Bulletin could not be published in its present form.

As a group we deal with otters and the protection of their aquatic environment is one of our main goals. Therefore it is a great pleasure for me to announce that our print-office - Grafisch Service Centrum Van Gils, Wageningen received on July 29th 1996 the “Milieuzorgstempel”, the highest environmental award for printing companies in the Netherlands. Van Gils got this award with the highest score of all nominated companies for their efforts in environmental protection.

The foto on the front cover of issue 13/1 was provided by Juan Pablo Gallo from Mexico. I apologise for “translocating” him to Argentina.

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