Navajo Natural Heritage Program (NNHP)

The Navajo Natural Heritage Program (NNHP) is the Navajo Nation’s rare, threatened and endangered species office. NNHP’s purpose is to collect, manage and disseminate biological and ecological information for land-use planning to promote the conservation of biological diversity on the Navajo Nation. The NNHP maintains a comprehensive database of information on rare and protected plant and animal species and biological communities on the Navajo Nation.

We build this database by continual inventories for new populations of rare species, and monitoring of known populations. The NNHP responds to requests for data on rare and protected species from land use planners, developers and researchers. We also review and update the Navajo Endangered Species List every two years, pursuant to the Navajo Tribal Code. This code (17 NNC § 507) makes it “unlawful for any person to take, possess, transport, export, process, sell or offer for sale or ship” any species listed on the Navajo Endangered Species List (in Groups 2 & 3).

To learn more about the NNHP Database System…