A Letter of Introduction from Dr. Julia Bevins

摘要

I'm delighted to serve the IBA as development director for the Bear Conservation Fund. My association with the IBA goes back approximately 23 years, when in October of 1990, my husband John Bevins, along with another biologist and pilot, disappeared while radio-tracking polar bears over the Arctic Ocean. John loved the world of bears and had studied all three species of North American bears. As a lasting legacy to John, I established the John Sheldon Bevins Memorial Foundation from the insurance settlement I received. The foundation makes annual distributions to both the Alaska Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the IBA.