Mei-Hsiu Hwang (center in the middle picture below), a Ph.D. candidate in the conservation biology program at the University of Minnesota, talked about her field research on black bears in Taiwan on February 9, 2003. Co-sponsored by TAAMN and TSA, the seminar was well attended. At the end of her talk, John Ko (right in the left picture below), president of TAAMN, presented Mei-Hsiu a Teddy bear in appreciation of her effort to raise the awareness of the life and death of the Formosan black bears. Click here to learn more about her story. Read the story reported in the World Journal.