IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
©IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group
Volume 39 Issue 1 (February 2022)
Note from the Editor
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Otter Enthusiasts!
Most of you will have realized that last year we had 5 full regular issues and 4 special issues which means we never have received so many manuscripts in the history of the IUCN OSG Bulletin. We are a bit delayed as it is February and Lesley has just closed issue 38/5 and now, we finally start into the new year and at this moment we have one complete issue already filled and finished and the manuscript for a complete issue 2 are almost finished while it is just the second month of the year.
I want to thank all the reviewers from last year of which some have done more than one review. My sincere thanks to Daniel Allen, Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso, Galo Zapata-Rios, Syed A. Hussain, Melissa Savage, Will Duckworth, Hannah Kruppa, Divya Mudapa, Rosemary Green, Max Khoo, Janice Reed-Smith, Atul Borker, Tom Serfass, Padma de Silva, Sina Mohtasebi, Aadrean, Leona Wai, Miriam Marmontel, Fernanda Michalski, Nicole Duplaix, Heike Weber Heike, Annabel Pianzin, Gandhiv Kafle, Naveen Namboodiri, Paras Acharya, Aarati Basnet and Oldemar Carvalho Junior. You all did a great job to evaluate the manuscripts but also to help the authors that their manuscripts reach the necessary maturity for acceptance.
The large number of manuscripts received also considerably increased the workload for Claudio Chehebar and Gerard Schmidt, who provide us with the standard French and Spanish abstracts. You will have realized that some articles do have additional abstracts in various languages and if you provide me such translations, I am more than happy to include them.
I allow myself today to include a note that authors should not forget that this is a completely voluntary activity performed in free time by Lesley and me. So before sending harsh comments I kindly ask you to think twice how to formulate your questions, concerns or critiques to which we are always open.
While it is very nice to see so many manuscripts arriving in one year which shows the appreciation our community has, we all should not forget that this also seriously increases the workload for Lesley. She uses a lot of time for the language editing and to double check missing references etc. I would kindly ask all authors to ensure that the references in the text and the list of references to be complete and congruent. Without the efforts of Lesley, our journal would not be what it is, and I want to thank you Lesley, once more for all your efforts on behalf of all of us!
