Preserving Culture,
Protecting Habitat
Native Conservancy was established in 2003 to empower Alaska Native peoples to permanently protect and preserve endangered habitats on their ancestral homelands. We strive to maintain and secure titles to Native lands in
conservation trusts to strengthen our inherent rights of sovereignty, subsistence and spirituality.
Our Reason for Being
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
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Connection
Honoring Ancient Relationships For Climate Solutions
The land-sea connections that flow from lakes and rivers into our oceans are the life breath of our subsistence-based coastal communities.
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Is Life
Preserving
Traditional Foodways
Coastal tribes along the North Pacific were traditional salmon nations that relied on the cultural Wild-salmon-way-of-life between oceans. Wild salmon were essential to the spiritual core, energy, food sovereignty, and economies of our people
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Is In Danger
Restoring Habitat For Climate Resiliency
As pressures continue to mount, protecting and restoring endangered wild salmon and herring habitat is the keystone to our survival, cultural resilience, food security and regenerative economies.
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Vision for Economic, Cultural, and Ecosystem Revitalization
Our native coastal communities depend on the ocean to provide nutritional, spiritual and cultural lifeways that were the bounty of our ancestors for millenia. Kelp has long been a traditional food source and a mainstay of culinary practices, cultural identity, and traditional knowledge embedded in native ways and the genesis of regenerative thinking. Native Conservancy’s kelp program serves Alaskan Native communities and native kelp farmers to be the rightful stakeholders of their ancestral waters for the value it can bring as a food source, to support habitat for forage fish such as pacific herring and salmon and as gainful employment. Kelp is at the center of subsistence practices of feeding our people, restoring our habitat, and assuring well being for our entire community.
Discover More30 YEARS OF WORK WE'RE PROUD OF
After the Exxon spill and Alaska Native Corporations clearcutting ancestral lands in the Gulf of Alaska, followed by government buying Native lands in the name of conservation, Eyak Athabaskan Native Dune Lankard decided to form the Native Conservancy to change the way conservation was done in his Eyak homelands.
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