IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 31 Issue 2 (October 2014)
Note from the Editor
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
Welcome to the second issue of 2014! We have just closed issue 31/1 and the first papers for the new issue will be online soon and more are in the pipeline so keep following the development on our website.
Meanwhile some of you have met at the 2014 International Otter Colloquium in Rio de Janeiro that just finished a few days ago and the reactions I heard from Rio where very positive. Those of you that could not participate will soon be able to read the contributions as we plan to have the Proceedings of the Colloquium published in a special issue 31/A. Similar to the usual issues, articles will be reviewed and go online whenever they are finished. Such an approach allows the fast contributors to see their articles online and not to have to wait for delayed submissions or reviews as in a printed version.
I want to thank the reviewers since 2012, namely Janis Ozolins, Joszef Lanski, Jessica Groenendijk, Eleanor Kean, Hans-Heinrich Krueger, Nambodiri Naveen, Marcelo Rheingantz, Claudio Soto-Azat, Ferdia Marnell, Oldemar Carvalho Junior, Platt, Syed Ainul Hussain, Grace Yoxon, Fernando Rosas, Emmelianna Bujak, Daniel Gallant, Claudio Chehebar, Tom Serfass, Elisabeth Chadwick, Daniel Allen, Petra Hajkova, Nicole Duplaix, Howard Golden, Robert Brooks, Hermann Ansorge, Omar Fadhil Al-Sheikly, Dilian Georgiev, Nuno Pedroso, Hugh Jansman, Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso, Roland Melisch, Carolina Ribas, Andreas Kranz, Peter Urban, Silva Lopez Gilberto, Michael Belanger and Darren Norris as without their support the quality could not be guaranteed. Furthermore I want to thank Mauricio Montaño, Laurent Mercier, Claudio Chehebar, Maximiliano Sepúlveda, Rob Williams, Martin Buschiazzo, Helen Jacques and Sebastién Cambier who translated abstracts into French or Spanish.
Please feel free to send me photos of otters as we are in need of good pictures for the title pages of future issues! Your help is greatly appreciated.
You all know what comes at the end of my editorials? Lesley is really doing an incredible job with the Bulletin and the overall website and in addition does also always the last editing and critical reading finding the last small mistakes or omissions. Lesley, as in the last sentence of all my editorials - thanks for all your continuing support.
