IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
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Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 1 - 74 (April 2008)

Note from the Editor
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Another year has passed and meanwhile I can say that I write once again an editorial note for the online version of the IUCN OSG Bulletin. Actually this is the 3rd issue going online and from the reactions I get it seems that practically everybody is satisfied with the change. Those that print the pdfs will not even see any difference as we had decided to keep to exactly the old layout in order to make the Bulletin recognisable.

Lesley did not only do a tremendous job to get new articles online once final version came back from the authors but proceeded to upload the old issues and the gap of missing issues is closing down. Lesley came up with the idea to have an OSG Member News section. This will be both in the Bulletin and on website and will be linked to each other.

Thanks to those who sent us manuscripts and those that took the task to review the manuscripts and especially assist with the editing of the English! We appreciate also that many of you send us the references and that we link on the webpage whenever possible improving the usefulness of the website. Thanks a lot to Rachel Kuhn, Nicole Duplaix and Daniel Scognamillo for translating the abstracts into French and Spanish.

Looking back to 2007 I think I can speak from the heart of everybody who was in Korea on the Xth International Otter Colloquium that this was an “once-in-a-lifetime event. Thanks a lot to the organisers for the tremendous job they did and for the hospitality that we could experience in the nice area of HwaCheon. Everybody is invited to send pictures to Lesley as we put at least some of them on the website. The conference gave us all lots of good spirits for new otter work.

The spirits were even that good that we started to upload the abstracts from the VIIIth International Otter Colloquium in Valdivia as a special issue 18A on the website. The delay happened due to a serious computer crash in Chile. Those of you who still have any abstracts available please send them to me so that we can add them consecutively. The Proceedings from the IXth International Otter Colloquium in Frostburg are in a final round and are expected to be uploaded as special issue 21A sometime in spring 2008 hopefully not later than March.

With regards,

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