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The student-led rescue network

The Bee-Team

Students who build bee hotels, plant rain gardens, and run rescues in their own communities — then report what they see on the Bee-Team Report, inside every Endangered Species Report.

Hands assembling a bee hotel from cut logs
Watch

The rescue plan, and why the bees need it.

Save the Bees: Student-Led Pollinator Rescue · 2:52

The plan behind the Bee-Team: how student crews rescue the pollinators.

The Peril of Neonics · 2:12

A Bee-Aware PSA: the hidden pesticide danger to wildlife, birds, and the bees.

What crews do

Real work first. The story comes from the work.

Bee hotel built from drilled logs

Build bee hotels

Nesting habitat for native solitary bees, built from local materials and placed where pollinators need it most.

Honeycomb detail

Plant rain gardens

Native-plant gardens that feed pollinators, filter runoff, and turn yards and schoolgrounds into habitat.

Honey bee swarm on a branch

Run rescues

Swarm and habitat rescues in progress, done safely with mentors — and filmed for the Bee-Team Report.

Field dispatches

Dispatches from the field air on the show.

Every crew is a bureau. When a crew builds, plants, or rescues, its dispatch becomes a Bee-Team Report segment on the Endangered Species Report — and posts here.

First dispatch: Coming Soon

Crew dispatches will appear here as the network grows. Start a crew →

How to join

Three steps from watching to rescuing.

1

Write to us

Email bees@unitedearthfund.org with your name, school or town, and what you want to work on.

2

Get your first project

We match you with a starter project — a bee hotel, a rain garden plot, or a local survey — and a mentor to guide it.

3

File your dispatch

Document the work. The best dispatches air on the Bee-Team Report — and the crew earns its badge.

Keep the Bees Buzzing

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