IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 1 - 57 (January 2010)
Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
It is with great sadness that I have to mention that we lost a friend and enthusiastic otter researcher during the recent earthquake. Paula was on a research on an island off the Chilean coast that was hit by the tsunami. All other of our Chilean friends were frightened but are in good health.
Lesley and I closed issue 26/2 as the page number for 2009 had reached already almost 130 pages. Therefore issue 27/1 does not start in April as it was usual in the past but is open already in January. We have meanwhile received several manuscripts that are in different stages in the review and revision process and we will have soon some very interesting articles online. If the positive trend will continue in 2010 we may have three issues in this year.
Please have also an eye on Special Issue 21A that is the portal for the Proceedings of the IXth International Otter Colloquium. New articles are regularly placed online and more still have to come. In case you are in possession of abstracts from the VIIIth Colloquium in Valdivia please feel free to send me your electronic or paper versions as we make them available as they arrive in special issue 19A.
At this stage I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Hermann Ansorge, Robert Brooks, Eduardo Carillo-Rubio, Claudio Chehebar, Pablo Garcia Diaz, Nicole Duplaix, Dilian Georgiev, Syed Ainul Hussain, Hans Kruuk, Chris Matcham, Laurent Mercier, Mauricio Montano-Garces, Darren Norris, Zachary Olsen, Nuno Pedroso, Rob Pickles, Fernando Rosas, Marcus Rowcliffe, Andy Sheldon, J. Scott Shannon, Vic Simpson, Grace Yoxon, who contributed a lot by either serving as reviewers, assisting some authors with the improvement of the English or by translating abstracts into French and Spanish. You may have noticed that we had some articles in 2009 with abstracts in additional languages. If this is of interest for you because of local reasons please feel free to submit the respective abstract together with the final revised version.
We all regret not to be able to have the XIth Otter Colloquium later this year in Italy, to discuss otters and meet old friends again. However I am also sure that we all understand the reasons for the organizers to postpone the meeting and I hope to see you all in Italy in 2011. Good luck to the team in Italy as there is a lot of work ahead.
