Presentations are given in their originally intended running order, not in the order that they were actually given.
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Wednesday 10th October 2008 |
Official opening
09:00~12:30
Chairperson: Sung-Yong Han |
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09:00 |
Welcome address of organizer
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Sung-Yong Han |
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09:10 |
Welcome address of notice of secretariat |
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09:20 |
Welcome address of OSG Chairman |
Jim Conroy |
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09:30 |
Welcome Video (of Mayor) |
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09:37 |
Introduction to Hwacheon County
PDF 344 KB |
Jun-Sung Kim (officer) |
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09:50 |
Introduction of Peace Bell Project of Hwacheon (Video) |
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09:57 |
Special gift (wind chimes) for Hwacheon |
Jim Conroy & Mayor of Hwacheon |
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10:20 |
Introduction of Hwacheon culture
PDF 9 MB |
Frances T. Kaliher |
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10:35 |
Slideshow in homage to the late Dr. Claus Reuther: PDF 3.6 MB |
German Otter Center & Sung-Yong Han |
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10:40 |
Break |
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11:00 |
Introduction of IUCN/SSC OSG |
Jim Conroy |
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11:15 |
Keystone address |
Nicole Duplaix |
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11:30 |
Introduction of colloquium theme (Otters, Peace Ambassador of Korea) |
Sung-Yong Han |
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11:50 |
Nature and Biodiversity management in Korea: A Policy Perspective
PDF 8 MB |
Paiho Rho |
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12:10 |
Introduction of Asian Otter Trust and Silent Auction PDF 939 K |
Frances T. Kaliher |
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12:25 |
Questions |
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12:30 |
Lunch at the Sudal Restaurant |
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Plenary Session I
Continental Reports on the Status of Otters
13:50~17:30
Chairperson: Jim Conroy |
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13:50 |
Africa Report
PDF 3.2 MB |
Tom Serfass |
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14:03 |
Asia Report
PDF 1 MB |
Padma de Silva |
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14:16 |
Europe Report |
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14:29 |
Latin America Report
PDF 52 KB
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14:42 |
North America Report |
Tom Serfass |
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14:55 |
Sea Otter
PDF 2.8 MB |
Angie Doroff |
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15:08 |
Giant Otter
PDF 1.5 MB |
Jessica Groenendijk |
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15:21 |
OSG Otter Bulletin |
Arno Gutleb |
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15:34 |
Questions |
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15:45 |
Break |
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Threats and Conservation
Chairperson: Jim Conroy
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16:00 |
Reconciliation Action Plans:
a Systematic Approach for Conflict Resolution
PDF 609 KB
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Andreas Kranz, Steirische Landesjaegerschaft (Austria) |
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16:20 |
Alarming Trade in Otter Furs
PDF 1.4 MB
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Paul Yoxon, International Otter Survival Fund (Britain) |
| Status and Management |
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16:40 |
Modern status of the Commander Islands population of the sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
PDF 1.4 MB
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Alexander Burdin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, ASLC, Seward (USA) |
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17:00 |
Cambodian Otter Research and Conservation Project
PDF 3 MB
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Annette Olsson, Sokrith Heng, Somanak Peove, Navy Nop
Presenter: Sokrith Heng/Navy Nop, Conservation International (Cambodia) |
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17:20 |
Questions |
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17:30 |
Buses depart for banquet |
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18:00 |
Reception - Yong-hwa Hall, Hwacheon High School |
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Welcome addresses by Mayor of Hwacheon and others… |
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18:40 |
Dinner with Korean fusion |
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Thursday 11th October 2008 |
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07:00 |
Breakfast at the Sudal Restaurant |
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Plenary Session II
Status, Management and Assessment Techniques
08:20~12:30
Chairperson: Tom Serfass
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08:20 |
Conservation status of the river otter (Lontra spp.) of the Southwestern Borderlands of U.S. and Mexico
PDF 22 MB
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Paul J. Polechla Jr., Biology Department, University of New Mexico (USA) |
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08:40 |
Conserving the habitat of the Otter, What, When, Why?: the case of the Eurasian otter in Catalonia (Spain)
PDF 9 MB
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Jordi Ruiz-Olmo, Biology of the University of Barcelona (Spain) |
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09:00 |
Indices of Health, Condition, and Mortality for Enhydra lutris kenyoni in Alaska: an unusual mortality event
PDF 2.4 MB
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Angela Doroff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USA) |
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09:20 |
First visual census of the Southern river otter, Lontra provocax in Chile
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Maximiliano A. Sepúlveda, CODEFF (Chile) |
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09:40 |
Scale and season does matter: implications for otter conservation
PDF 2.3 MB (members only) |
Teresa Sales-Luís, the University of Lisbon (Portugal) |
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10:00 |
Status, distribution and conservation of otters (Lutra spp.) of Bangladesh
PDF 19 MB
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Mohammed Mostafa Feeroz, Department of Zoology, University of Jahangirnagar (Bangladesh) |
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10:20 |
Break |
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10:40 |
Extinction of the Japanese otter
PDF 3.7 MB
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Motokazu Ando, Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan) |
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11:00 |
Initial recording behaviour of Lutra sumatrana in U Minh Thuong National Park, Mekong delta- Vietnam
PDF 2 MB
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Nguyen Vu Khoi, The World Associaton of Zoos and Aquariums (Vietnam) |
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11:20 |
The status of Asian small-clawed otter Aonyx cinereus, Illiger, 1815 in wild
PDF 4 MB
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S.A. Hussain, Wildlife Institute of India (India) |
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11:40 |
Otters in the Wildlife Reserves of Sri Lanka
PDF 969 KB (members only)
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Mangala de Silva, Dep. of Zoology, University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) |
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12:00 |
Latrine site characteristics of spotted-necked otter at Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania (PDF 8.3 MB)
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Tom Serfass, Dep. of Biology, Frostburg State University (USA) |
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12:20 |
Questions |
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12:30 |
Lunch in the Sudal Restaurant |
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13:30 |
Special Event: Awarding prizes for children's drawing competition |
Plenary Session III
Status, Management and Assessment Techniques (continued)
14:00~15:40
Chairperson: Jordi Ruiz Olmo |
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14:00 |
Monitoring distribution and population trends in European Otter (Lutra lutra) on a regional level
PDF 2 MB
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Hans-Heinrich Krüger, Aktion Fischotterschutz e. V., OTTER-ZENTRUM (Germany) |
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14:20 |
Monitoring and assessment of conservation status for European Otter Lutra lutra in Denmark
PDF 2.7 MB
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Bjarne Søgaard, Aksel Bo Madsen, National Environmental Research Institute (Denmark) |
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14:40 |
How do we assess the status and habitat of otter in context with environmental assessment procedures?
PDF 141 KB
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Andreas Kranz, Steirische Landesjaegerschaft (Austria) |
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15:00 |
Population Density, Distribution and Conservation Status of the Marine Otter (Lontra Felina, Molina 1782) on Chiloe Island and in the Channels and Fjords along Chile's Southern Coast, Preliminary Results
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Ricardo Alvares, NGO Conservación Marina (Chile) |
| GIS |
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15:20 |
A landscape approach to the conservation of the otter Lutra lutra in Italy
PDF 6.7 MB (members only)
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Anna Loy, Dip. STAT, Universita del Molise (Italy) |
| Reintroduction |
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15:40 |
Update of the Reintroduction of otters in the Netherlands
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Addy de Jongh, Dutch Otterstation Foundation (Netherland) |
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16:00 |
Questions |
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16:10 |
Break |
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Concurrent Workshop Session A
16:30~18:00 |
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Founding of the Asian Otter Trust |
Sung-Yong Han & Frances T. Kaliher |
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Otter in Captivity Task Force |
Helen Bateman |
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Lutra lutra population and habitat assessment: Natura 2000, Article 17 and environmental assessment |
Andreas Kranz |
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The status of the Smooth otter Lutrogale perspicillata in the wild and in captivity |
Nicole Duplaix |
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18:30 |
Dinner in the Sudal restaurant |
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19:30 |
DMZ film screen at the Sudal restaurant |
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Friday 12th October 2008 |
| All Day |
DMZ Tour |
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This is a stop-gap until the proceedings of the Colloquium are published.
