Article 1 of the above-mentioned Law specifies that the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg establishes under the name "Foundation Habitat Elbe" a Foundation of public law with its headquarter in Hamburg. The Foundation shall co-operate closely with the City of Hamburg, the port, and nature conservation bodies. It has been established with the purpose of creating new shallow-water areas, to preserve and develop tidal flats, to reconnect former branches and tributaries to the main course of the ri