The Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) envisions a world where protecting and promoting nature works in concert with sustainable development and improving human well-being.

SNAPP delivers evidence-based, scalable solutions to global challenges at the intersection of nature conservation, sustainable development, and human well-being.

Launched in 2013, as a partnership of The Nature Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at University of California, Santa Barbara, SNAPP is a first-of-its-kind collaboration that delivers evidence-based, scalable solutions to global challenges at the intersection of nature conservation, sustainable development, and human well-being.

SNAPP: Because Everyone’s Prosperity Relies on Nature

How can protecting nature help secure food, energy and water — and enhance the quality of life — for 10 billion people? Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) is taking on this key question for the planet. They intend to uncover approaches that will benefit humankind, especially the planet’s poorest and most marginalized citizens.

One of the most important benefits of SNAPP is that its reach goes beyond what any single organization could achieve alone. With more than 400 experts from over 200 institutions worldwide engaged in SNAPP working groups and dedicating untold hours to these efforts, they are leveraging an enormous amount of scientific capacity.

And this broad diversity of participants is helping ensure implementation of key findings, guidance and new tools for conservation and sustainable development across sectors.

Vision

A Quick, Clear Pathway to Impact

SNAPP is structured to deliver rapid results that will make a real-world difference:

• - They gather specialists from a broad range of specialties — ecology to engineering, multilaterals to local governmental agencies, conservation practitioners to humanitarian field staff — to collaborate and produce knowledge that is science-based and practical, on big-picture inquiries such as where natural habitats can defend coastal communities from the effects of storms.
• - Their working groups include not just scientists but policymakers, funders and field practitioners — to ensure that their findings are of maximum utility.
• - And from the start they’ll include key institutions ready to use the knowledge, strategies and tools they produce.
• - That’s why SNAPP’s findings will lead to better policies, more effective field practices, and durable economies that value nature’s services and secure the livelihoods of families at risk.

SNAPP working groups fall under four thematic areas:

• - Food Security & Nature
• - Water Security & Nature
• - Community Resilience & Climate Change
• - Ecosystem Services & Biodiversity Benefits

By supporting science-based solutions — solutions co-developed by the very stakeholders who have the expertise, influence and ability to apply working group outcomes around the world — SNAPP creates the springboard to help both people and nature prosper.