NHI

The Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to the mission of restoring and preserving natural functions in major river basins to maintain their water-dependent ecosystems and the services they provide in sustaining and enriching human life. We work at the global scale, focusing on major, often transnational, river basins including California, the United States, Africa, Asia and Latin America, that have been significantly altered and those where intact aquatic systems of exceptional ecological value are subject to imminent development pressure. We achieve this mission by demonstrating innovative planning, management and regulatory tools and techniques at the river basin scale that can then be propagated at the global scale... For over two decades, NHI has been working to re-create a world where rivers function like rivers again, in harmony with human needs. Founded in 1989 by a group of experienced conservation lawyers and scientists,..

Also known as: Natural Heritage Institute