IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group

Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 1 - 53 (April 2001)

Note from the Editor
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Another IUCN OSG Bulletin is printed and send out, This is already issue 14, which has been produced since I took over the duty as an editor, and I have to admit that on one hand it is still a pleasure to do it, and on the other hand sometimes I feel tired of all struggling with organizing funding and all the little details around manuscripts. The greatest disappointment is the low response I had to my last leaflet. I can understand that people are unable or unwilling to contribute but at least the return of the leaflet should demonstrate some interest. Why do I send out 350 copies when only 50 persons send back the leaflet. This I want to ask the 300 of you who did not respond? Are you not interested anymore? It will safe a lot of money and energy to produce less copies. This is the last issue I will send to the whole list. Those of you who have not responded this year or who have not been active for the Bulletin by either sending information on publications, submitting a manuscript or having done a review will not receive any further issues. This is the last chance to send me a notice that you still want to receive forthcoming issues.

It was the initiative of Lionel Lafontaine, France that in future we will always have a  French Summary for all articles and reports.

The printing and postage of this issue was sponsored by Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.  I want to thank Hugh Jansman who organised the contact!

Thanks to Claudio Chehébar, Jutta Jahrl, Sisco Mañas, Claus Reuther and Fernando Rosas who sent me information on recent publications.

I would like to ask everybody to think about possible new sponsors for the Bulletin. It is quite a task to organise the money for printing and postage twice a year and any help would be welcome.

Kevin Roche (Trebon) again functions as a reader for those contributions which have not been reviewed by at least one native speaker. Alvaro Soutullo (Uruguay) and Lionel Lafontaine (France) translated the abstracts into Spanish and French. 1 have to thank the 'Otter Bulletin Team' - Mans van den Berg (Wageningen), Els Hoogsteede-Veens and Erwin Hellegering (GRAF1SCH SERVICE CENTRUM VAN GILS, Wageningen) - for their continuing help.

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