Featured Outdoor Diversity Organization: Native Conservancy
During the month of September, we are highlighting the work of Native Conservancy in our community effort to showcase organizations who are working towards social justice, environmental action, and more inclusive public lands.
About Native Conservancy
Native Conservancy was established in 2003 to empower Alaska Native peoples to permanently protect and preserve endangered habitats on their ancestral homelands.
They strive to maintain and secure titles to Native lands in conservation trusts to strengthen their inherent rights of sovereignty, subsistence and spirituality.
Native Conservancy’s reason for being is to protect and restore Alaska Native ecosystems for coastal communities. Native Conservancy is the very first Native-led, Native-owned land conservancy in the United States.
“The day the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened, was the day the water died – yet it was also the day that something inside of me was ignited,” Dune Lankard, Founder and President of Native Conservancy says.
He adds that he “realized that this is not how it ends; this is how it began for me, for us. We had to dig down deep inside our beliefs and our dreams to face our fears, to find the courage and strength to step up and be louder than everything else, yet remain a voice of reason, while we take on the powers that be, that got us into this mess in the first place.”
Support and Donate
Please consider joining us in making a donation to Native Conservancy and supporting their important work.
Follow Native Conservancy
You can find lots more information about this amazing organization and what they do on their website and social media channels.
- Website: http://www.nativeconservancy.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nativeconservancy
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NativeConservancy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConserveNative
Credit for the images used in this post: Native Conservancy Instagram account.
You Can Help Bridge the Diversity Gap in the Outdoor Industry
An overview of diversity and inclusivity organizations we have supported can be found here. This document contains information about what these organizations are doing and how you can donate to them directly.
We also set up a submission form you can use if you know an organization that’s working to make the outdoors more diverse and inclusive. If you want to see them supported, please submit via this form.