The Environmental Crisis on Native American Lands

Comprising less than 5% of the world's population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity. That role has always been very challenging for them because of constant threats to their ancestral territory by large scale development from outside. 3 Generations has long been a champion of indigenous Americans’ attempts to save their land and the future of their society. To that end, we made, and are still distributing the film A Different American Dream, which brought worldwide attention to the degradation of Native American lands due to oil extraction despite tribal resistance to it.

With wildfires burning in the Amazon, Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Indonesia and the Canary Islands perhaps it’s time to acknowledge the pivotal role that indigenous people and local communities play in biodiversity conservation and climate change resilience. Recent research suggests that securing the land rights of indigenous people and other local communities is a low-cost way to counter global deforestation and climate change.

3 Generations is expanding its focus to all indigenous peoples and their struggle to protect their environments and natural resources. With your support, we will continue to tell the stories of Native Americans and their fight to protect their ancestral lands as we also seek out instances where we can shine a light on the plight of other indigenous people around the world. 

We invite you to visit our website www.3generations.org for more updates on this and all of our current projects.

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