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The feature segment

Ecology Heroes

Profiles of students and participants making a difference for the bees and nature — featured on every Endangered Species Report, and collected here so their stories keep working.

Student reporter filming in the field
Who counts as a hero

Anyone doing the work.

A fourth-grader who built her school's first bee hotel. A retiree who turned a parking strip into native prairie. A crew that rescued a swarm from a demolition site. Ecology Heroes aren't celebrities — they're neighbors. Every profile ends the same way: exactly how the hero started, so you can start too.

The heroes

Profiles post here as they air.

Each Ecology Heroes feature from the show gets a permanent home on this page.

First hero: Coming Soon

The first Ecology Heroes profile airs with the premiere. Know someone who belongs here? Nominate them →

Nominate

Know a hero? Tell the newsroom.

1

Send the story

Email bees@unitedearthfund.org — who they are, what they did, and a photo if you have one.

2

Students check it out

The campus newsroom researches the story and reaches out — every profile is fact-checked before air.

3

The story airs

The profile runs as the Ecology Heroes feature on the show and lives here for good.

Heroes start with support.

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