The Mountain Institute (TMI) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the world's mountains by conserving mountain ecosystems and empowering the people in mountain communities.

The Mountain Institute has been involved in a variety of conservation and community programs in the Himalayas since 1987.

Among these programs is the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) program, in which TMI works with farmers in the Sacred Himalayan Landscape by teaching them to cultivate medical plants, having trained over 12,500 since 2001.