IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
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Volume 25 Current Issue (2008)

OSG Group Members News
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• Otters offer insights into pollution - Michael Bellanger and Catrin Wittnich, two of our new Canadian members from 2007, with a press release also mentioning OSG. Jan 15th 2008

OSG Events

• February 2008: Jim Conroy attended the IUCN/SSC Chairmens' Meeting in Dubai
• March 2008: OSG Members at "Development of water bodies and habitat corridors for and with the
  indicator species otter (Lutra lutra)" in Bayern, Bavaria. Report from Andreas Kranz

New Members of OSG

Thus far this year, we have welcomed five new members to the OSG:

Dr Jozsef Lanski, Hungary: Well known to many of us, he studies the ecology of semi aquatic and terrestrial predators and conservation biology: feeding ecology of carnivores, monitoring, molecular genetics and toxicology of otters (Lutra lutra) and densities and population dynamics of carnivores in relation to food resources (fish, rodents).
Nuna Pedroso and Teresa Sales-Luís, Portugal: Working with Margarida Santos-Reis, they have been to several colloquiums and other meetings, and are well known to many of us. They work on the ecology and conservation of Lutra lutra in Portugal
Maria Schmalz, East Germany: Otter habitat analysis and otter surveying in Thüringen, Germany
Dr Jon Watt, Scotland: Ecology, conservation and management of freshwater fish and riparian mammals especially Lutra lutra

Please note that Nuno's surname is Pedroso not Pedrosa, and Maria is Maria Schmalz, not Scmalz, as was erroneously circulated to everyone!

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