IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 70 - 120 (June 2012)
Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
As you well may have observed we are not only working on the current regular issues, but in the last weeks, more articles have been added to the Proceedings from Frostburg, Hwacheon and Pavia. All this work is ongoing in parallel with the regular issues meaning that many of you have received requests for reviews. Thanks to all who provide immediate and high quality reviews. I also want to thank those Spanish speakers that have volunteered to translate the abstracts following a note from me. Right now this is going smoothly: Laurent Mercier needs special thanks as almost all French translations are done by him.
At the beginning of March, we had an open meeting of the OSG Steering Group here in Luxemburg. In addition to Nicole, Anna, Lesley, Carole, Tom and me, Andreas, Gerard and Hanne also participated. We discussed both specific but also very generic topics ranging from country-specific problems to fund raising or the organisation of a workshop for field methods to be held in South East Asia hopefully later this year. The minutes are now available in the “Members-only” section and updates on actions will notified on the home page of our website when they take place. A special thanks from all participants in the meeting to Prof. Lucien Hoffmann from the CRP - Gabriel Lippmann for hosting this event.
I can already forecast, since we have enough manuscripts in the pipeline to fill this issue, that we will probably have three issues again this year. If you are in doubt whether to submit your work to our journal keep in mind that all articles are not only fully peer reviewed but once accepted also uploaded to the Directory of Open Access Journals ensuring a wide distribution. I also observe that articles from the IUCN OSG Bulletin are more and more often cited in other journals showing that you and the reviewers do a real good work.
If you have good pictures of otters for which you have the copyright feel free to send them either to me or to Lesley. We may choose one of them for the title page of the forthcoming issues!
Finally - like always but not as a simple routine - I definitely have to specially thank Lesley for all her dedication to the IUCN OSG Bulletin, the website and the huge number of hours that she spends keeping all this online and running.
