I’m a Multimedia Associate and Vermont state representative for the national, science-based nonprofit Project Coyote, whose mission is to protect North America’s wild carnivores and promote compassionate coexistence through education, science, advocacy, and coalition building. My work for Project Coyote includes video editing for in-house video projects, helping to manage Project Coyote’s wildlife photo and video media archives and working closely with their social media team to supply these materials, and representing Project Coyote in the state of Vermont as I help to push forward Project Coyote’s campaign for nonlethal coexistence strategies with native carnivores in Vermont and throughout the Northeast.

EXAMPLES OF THIS WORK: WILDLIFE ADVOCACY FILMS

VIDEO EDITOR: SARAH GORSLINE

 

Ecosystem Allies: Large Carnivores and How They Benefit Us All (2023)

A short film narrated by Peter Coyote that highlights the importance of apex predators to ecosystems in the United States and globally, and details how they help manage “trophic cascades,” myriad indirect interactions of multiple species of plants, animals and insects within ecosystems to keep them healthy and in balance.

VIEW FILM HERE

Farming & Ranching with Wildlife, educational videos (2023)

Three educational videos that highlight examples of how farmers and ranchers, from West to East, are coexisting with large predators on their farms, highlighting their use of coexistence techniques like livestock guardian animals (Great Pyrenees and Maremma dogs, burros and donkeys, llamas), increased use of fencing, night lighting and “fox lights,” and fladry (a historic European pratice of adding cloth flagging to fences to deter wild canid species).

VIEW 3 FILMS HERE:

Liz Shaw of Morse Brook Farm, Westminster, VT with two Maremma livestock guardian dogs, sheep and cows. Footage courtesy of Kyle Bardwell for Project Coyote.

Farming and Ranching with Wildlife: Overview: VIEW VIDEO HERE

Farming and Ranching with Wildlife: Guardian Animals: VIEW VIDEO HERE

Farming with Wildlife: Coexistence Strategies for Farming in the Northeast U.S.: VIEW VIDEO HERE




Killing Games: Wildlife In The Crosshairs (2017)

Poster design by Deb Etheredge, courtesy of Project Coyote.

A short film with multiple length versions, detailing the problematic practice of wildlife killing contests, which continue to be legal in most states around the United States. These contests offer prizes, such as a belt buckle or guns, for those who kill the most of a certain species, the largest or smallest of that species. Commonly targeted animals include: coyotes, bobcats, foxes, wolves, raccoons, crows and rattlesnakes. This film highlights why these killing contests are not based in modern science, are ethically questionable, and destructive to ecosystems.

 

EXAMPLES OF THIS WORK: WILDLIFE ADVOCACY ARTICLES

WRITER: SARAH GORSLINE