A daily program of endangered-species and ecology news — reported by students, from Bee-Team™ crews in the field to campus newsrooms that research and build the stories with faculty experts. The first pilot is already shot — your support puts the student-led daily show on the air.
The Report keeps the public up to date on Bee-Team™ rescue news and the “State of the Ark™” — the real condition of the species around us — through daily stories, reporting, and documentary journalism.
Endangered-species and ecology reporting that keeps life’s crisis in front of the public, every day.
Field data from Bee-Teams becomes on-the-ground reporting on the species in each region.
Bee-Team crews report from the field while campus students research, develop, and fact-check the stories with faculty experts.
A first pilot has already been produced by University of Michigan students. Funding the newsroom is what turns that pilot into a daily program — and we have a clear path to get there.
Set up news central — the newsroom and work-study team — at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Put the show on the air with student news anchors delivering the day’s endangered-species and ecology stories.
Managed from the hub, UEF brings university chapters and high-school teams online — students staffing the work and passing the baton semester to semester.
Start with six founding universities and initial high-school teams, then grow chapter by chapter across the country.
Student anchors delivering the “State of the Ark™ News” — a first look at the pilot already shot at the University of Michigan. Independent by design: funded by the public, so the reporting always stays factual.
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Legacy productions help fund the mission. UEF’s five-decade catalog — documentaries, interviews, and historic Detroit rock recordings (1967–1970) — is sold to support the bee rescue and the Report.
“Birds have wings — they fly. Animals have feet — they run. Man has the capacity of time-binding — he binds time.”