IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
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Volume 26 Issue 1 pages 1 - 62 (April 2009)

Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends and Colleagues!

We have just closed issue 25/2 and opened issue 26/1. The fact that we had two issues on 2008 after three intermediate years where we had only one seems to me as the proof that the online version is finally fully accepted. I really hope that this positive trend continues and Lesley and I will do our best to make the IUCN Otter Specialist Group Bulletin into a flourishing way to publish your results. The fact that all manuscripts are also uploaded to the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org) will further contribute to the visibility of your results.

Thanks to Michael Belanger, Mark Bowler, Elisabeth Chadwick, Paul Chanin, Claudio Chehebar, Syed Hussain, Anna Loy, Claudio Soto Azat, Maximiliano Sepulveda, and Vania Carolina Fonseca da Silva who put efforts into improving the submitted manuscripts by doing an excellent job as reviewers. On the other hand it is also interesting for me to see who, after invitation to perform a review, does not even answer that this is not possible at the moment, something that would be perfectly fine with me. Be sure that I will not bother this small group of persons in the future with any request.

I depend completely on the help of the people who translate the French and Spanish abstracts of all articles and I want to express my sincere thanks to Núria Martínez Carreras, Fabrice Capber, Alain Dohet, Frederic Giraud, Laurent Mercier, Gerard Schmidt, Mauricio Montaño Garces, and Daniel Scognamillo, who recently translated abstracts.

Congratulations to Dilian Georgiev, who recently finished his PhD on Eurasian otters in Bulgaria. Unfortunately the thesis itself is only available in Bulgarian but some excerpts of his work have already been published in the past and another piece of work can be found in this issue.

I want to remind you also on the excellent work Lesley does. Probably only I know how much work and efforts she puts in publishing the Bulletin online, how fast she changes tiny errors, last minute requests etc. and it is a great pleasure for me to do this together with her.

With regards,

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