Journalist Evgeny Malyshev from Penza announced a fundraiser for an expedition to Tatarstan to investigate mass bee deaths over the past five years. Biologists claim that bees are the most sensitive indicator of the processes in nature. Malyshev announced the fundraising on the Sila Slova (‘The Power of the Word’) Crowdfunding Platform.
Evgeny Malyshev plans to go on an expedition to Tatarstan to investigate the scale and consequences of the environmental problem — the mass death of bees in different Russian regions. According to the Russian Union of Beekeepers, experts recorded the death of about 10 thousand bee colonies (one bee colony is one hive) in 2022. In Tatarstan, bees die most often.
Biologists claim that bees are the most sensitive indicator of the processes in nature. They react sharply to the excess of poison in plants, which appears in them after field treatment.
Following the expedition’s results, Malyshev plans to release a text for Kedr.media and a movie. It requires 100 thousand rubles. Learn how to help here.
Using the Sila Slova Crowdfunding Platform, journalists, bloggers, and public organizations ask for help with the creation of projects about the current problems of the country. Journalist Natalya Utkina from Nizhny Novgorod announced a fundraiser for a business trip to write a series of materials about rural farmers. The characters took a chance and stayed in the unpromising Voskresensky District, from where residents left en masse. But the entrepreneurs started farming and learned how to earn successfully: they make elite cheese, breed purebred chickens, and some of them moved to the village from the city. The journalist believes that proactive people are reviving Russian villages. Utkina has 24 thousand rubles left to raise.
The journalists of the VK-media Publishing Group have completed a fundraiser for the creation of a cycle of reports about the residents of dying "prison villages". Correspondents will talk to people who live near former or existing colonies in the north of the Urals, capture their way of life and the "sociocultural phenomenon". In the 1930s, settlements "grew up" around the Gulag camps. The colonies were liquidated long ago, but people who "grew up behind the fence" continue living there.