“Vanishing Oasis” — First-Place Winner of the Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — documents how massive withdrawals from rivers that feed the Great Salt Lake are
threatening the survival of millions of migratory birds and creating bare lake beds that generate plumes of toxic dust. “We have such a huge responsibility to ensure the lake’s survival…” filmmaker Jaxon Derow says, “not just for the Great Salt Lake’s ecosystem, but for all the ecosystems across the Western Hemisphere from which these birds
come to feed and reproduce each year..”
