At the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) announced the launch of Science for Nature and People (SNAP). This important collaboration seeks to address conservation and human development issues in the context of increasing global populations and growing resource scarcity. SNAP aims to achieve this lofty goal by exploring knowledge based approaches to managing things like food, water, and energy.