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

Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 58 - 90 (October 2003)

Note from the Editor
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Thanks to the efforts of Aksel Bo Madsen and the generous sponsorship of NERI the printing of this issue of the IUCN Otter Specialist Group Bulletin was made possible. For the rest, there was almost no reaction at all in response to my complaint about the inactivity of approximately 90% of those receiving the Bulletin in the last issue. No - I am not going to be cynical about that! In addition, Christoph Schenk of the Frankfurt Zoological Society took over the extra costs for the inclusion of the Giant Otter bibliography that was mentioned some time ago. In this issue we finally had the space to insert it. My sincere thanks to both Aksel and Christoph!

In addition I really want to thank Kevin Roche (Czech Republic) for correcting all those contributions that have not been reviewed by at least one native English speaker. Unfortunately we were not able to provide translations into Spanish and French. I will try to include the missing summaries in the next issue. I also have to thank Hans van den Berg (Ede), who has assisted me over many years with the transport of the boxes ("thanks for all the kilometres you have driven at your own cost"), and Els Hoogsteede-Veens and Erwin Hellegering of GRAFISCH SERVICE CENTRUM VAN GILS (Wageningen) who are always open to suggestions, deciding on colours of title pages by themselves ("I like your choice"), and for having spotted several layout mistakes that I overlooked.

Finally, many thanks go to Giuseppe Carpaneto, Paul Chanin, Josef Lanszki, Aksel Bo Madsen, and Dénes Nagy, all of who provided information on recent publications.

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