In January of this year, Hwang rallied people together to form the Taiwan Black Bear Conservation Association, in hopes of remedying the long-standing shortage of funding for black bear research.
黃美秀號召成立的台灣黑熊保育協會（今年 1 月掛牌），便是希望募集經費，改善長期以來黑熊研究經費短絀的困境。