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

Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 1 - 61 (April 2002)

Congress Announcements
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International Otter Conference, Isle of Skye
30 June - 4 July 2003

The International Otter Survival Fund plans to hold a conference entitled 'The Ecology and Status of the Eurasian otter on the Isle of Skye from 30 June to 4 July 2003.

The aim of the conference is to present data from new and innovate research on the species. The conference will have a number of themes, including:

1. Status of the otter in Europe:
2. Threat to otters
3. Otter Conservation
4 Otter health & welfare
5 Otter care and rehabilitation
6 Otters education and economics
7 Reintroductions
8 Recent research in otter biology
9 Future research, including integrated pan-European projects

A number of scientists have been invited to present key-note talks. Should you wish to present a paper at the meeting, it should fall into one of the nine topics listed above.

Abstracts of papers should be sent to the IOSF, for discussion by the Conference Committee. 

Further information on the meeting can also be obtained from the IOSF offices

Jim Conroy
on behalf of the Conference Committee
A.C. Gutleb, J. Ruiz-Ohno, P. Yoxon

4th European Congress of Mammalogy
August 2003, Brno/Czech Republic
http://www.kvetna.brno.cas.cz 
Meeting European Section of OSG 2003

It is planned to hold a meeting of the European Section of the Otter Specialist Group (OSG) in connection with the 4th European Congress of Mammalogy; to be held on July 27 - August 1, 2003, at Brno in the Czech Republic. For further information on the OSG Meeting please contact Michaela Bodner (address -see below)

First call for contributions for the Symposium 'Conservation and Biology of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra)'

We would like to invite you to participate on the symposium 'Conservation and Biology of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra)' as part of the 4th European Congress of Mammalogy. Please note: this is a separate session to the OSG European Group meeting!

Contributions should concentrate on new research projects, methods, or approaches to conservation and the biology of the Eurasian Otter. We will also provide an area to present poster contributions. Please contact either Marcela or Michaela at one of the addresses below for more information.

For more detailed information on the 4th European Congress of Mammalogy, please contact the web site at www.ivb.cz.

On behalf of the Scientific Committee of the 4th European Congress of Mammalogy,

IX International Otter Colloquium
4th - 6th June 2004, USA
TSERFASS@mail.frostburg.edu
See also From the Chairman's Desk

9th International Congress of Mammalogy
2005, Sapporo/Japan
http://cse.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/hiroh/ICOM9Japan.html

Dear Mammalogists,
It is a great pleasure to inform you that the Congress Committee for MAMMAL 2005 (the 9th International Mammalogical Congress; formerly the International Theriological Congress: ITC) has been launched. The Congress Committee will periodically inform you about the preparation of MAMMAL 2005 through e-mail and the web page (www.hokkaido-ies.go.jp/mammal2005/), which is now under construction. Though we are now managing e-mail addresses based on delegate lists of the 7th and 8th ITC, we would like to renew the list of addresses for MAMMAL 2005 with your permission. Are you interested in MAMMAL 2005? Please reply to us (MAMMAL2005@hokkaido-ies.go.jp) to get the periodical information about MAMMAL 2005.

Koichi Kaji and Takashi Saitoh (Secretary General)
Tomoko Takahashi (Secretary)

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