The Endangered Species Report™
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.
Ecology news, reported by students, in the field and on campus.
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.
Daily ecology news
Endangered-species and ecology reporting that keeps life’s crisis in front of the public, every day.
State of the Ark™ reports
Field data from Bee-Teams becomes on-the-ground reporting on the species in each region.
Field crews & campus newsrooms
Bee-Team crews report from the field while campus students research, develop, and fact-check the stories with faculty experts.
The pilot is shot. Here’s how it becomes daily.
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.
Establish the hub
Set up news central (the newsroom and work-study team) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Launch the daily broadcast
Put the show on the air with student news anchors delivering the day’s endangered-species and ecology stories.
Build the student network
Managed from the hub, UEF brings university chapters and high-school teams online, with students staffing the work and passing the baton semester to semester.
Grow the movement
Start with six founding universities and initial high-school teams, then grow chapter by chapter across the country.
A first look at the pilot.
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.
Help put it on the air →
Legacy productions help fund the mission. UEF’s five-decade catalog of 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.”