Dune Lankard (Member, Bioneers Board of Directors), Co-founder and Board President, Eyak Preservation Council, a native Athabaskan Eyak from the Copper River Delta of Alaska, was a commercial fisherman in Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez oil spill transformed him into an activist and social entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Redzone, the virtual home of Alaska’s wild salmon, fished and protected for over 3,500 years by the Eyak people. Their mission is to preserve and protect the Delta and Prince William Sound watersheds, so that the salmon will continue to return to their birthplace and nurture the wildlife for which they are the cornerstone species, and so that the community of fisherpeople in Cordova and the region will flourish, for the circle is one: bioregional conservation means local economic sustainability. Dune is co-founder of the Eyak Preservation Council, the Native Conservancy Land Trust, the FIRE Fund, and the RED OIL Network — Resisting Environmental Degradation of Indigenous Lands. redzone.org
