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Arno Gutleb, EditorIUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
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Volume 24 Pages 1 - 76 (December 2007)

Note from the Editor
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This is the second editorial note written for the online version of the IUCN OSG Bulletin. During the last months Lesley and I were quite busy. Lesley did a tremendous job to get the new articles online once they final version came back from the authors. I cannot say whether it is the new form but since autumn there was a steady stream of manuscripts coming in and while the 2006 issue consisted of 46 pages we will soon have some articles in the 2007 issue online as there are several interesting in the pipeline! Altogether I have the idea that the new form is meanwhile well accepted. Lesley sends me once a month an update on number and locations of hits to the website and the Bulletin and from these data we can conclude that the website is well visited.

Thanks to those who sent us manuscripts and those that took the task to review the manuscripts and assist with the editing of the English! We appreciate also the references that were sent to us either physically or as a link to the webpage improving the usefulness of the website.

It is only a bit more than 3 months left until we have the next meeting in South Korea and I hope to see many of you again. Oxford University Press provided me with two free copies of Hans Kruuk’s new book on otters that I thought may be given away as a price but details have to be discussed. Another point I thought could be mentioned already at this stage is the question whether we should have an art auction again, similar to what Tom organised at the last meeting. Personally I am in favour of such an idea! Anyhow please have a look on the website of the conference (http://www.otter2007.org) for new announcements.

I want to take the chance to congratulate two of our colleagues who recently finished their PhD on otters – namely Johanna Arendal, Sweden and Risto Sulkava, Finland. I hope that the two of you keep related to otters and the “otter family” in the future.

With regards,

Arno

There was an additional delay in the printing of the Proceedings of the conference held on Skye in 2003 but they should be printed soon and copies may be ordered from Grace. Please contact her for details (Grace M. Yoxon, E-mail: Grace@otter.org, www.otter.org).

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