IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 33 Issue 1 (January 2016)
Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
We just recently closed issue 32 and start into the new year and a new issue with this first editorial in 2016 and issue 33. As in all last years there is a continuous flow of submissions and the first manuscripts can be expected to be uploaded to issue 33 soon. I can only encourage you to keep following the development on our website.
The IUCN OSG Bulletin is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) allowing more visibility for your manuscripts. Lesley is currently developing a new layout for the IUCN OSG Bulletin and I have seen first ideas and can promise that the new design will clearly improve the functionality of the website. We also change the design based on some requirements to show more information on ethics, copyrights, etc. coming from COPE and DOAJ, to which I have signed up the IUCN OSG Bulletin to comply in order to get in the future a status in the highest class of open access journals.
As you can see on the website the date and the venue for the next International Otter Colloquium has been decided and communicated. I hope that many of you will be able to participate in Singapore in 2016 in order to exchange scientific and conservation ideas for all otter species.
I would be very happy if those of you that have high quality pictures of otters could send them to me and Lesley as we are always in need of good pictures for the title pages of future issues! Your help is greatly appreciated.
With my last sentence I want to send the deserved flowers and thanks to Lesley for all her work and hours spend with the IUCN OSG Bulletin.
