SNAPP

Nature Positive Landscapes

  • How can Nature Positive outcomes be defined, planned and delivered in complex, multi-stakeholder mining landscapes, in a collaborative effort among mining companies, other relevant industries, governments, communities, and Indigenous Peoples?

The Nature Positive agenda aims to halt and reverse environmental degradation by 2030. We will address how to assess contributions through inclusive, regional approaches, determine appropriate decision-making frameworks for complex, multi-stakeholder mining landscapes, and identify operational governance, monitoring, and financial structures. The resulting blueprint for Nature Positive Landscape Action Plans will be co-developed and tested through a real-world pilot in Chile’s Alto Mapocho watershed, a high-biodiversity landscape that provides critical ecosystem services, where WCS is working alongside key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Environment, the Regional Government of Santiago, and Anglo American, and will engage other key actors in the territory.

Team Status:

  • New

Goals

  • Develop a global classification of mining landscapes to assist stakeholders  with enabling conditions and high-priority areas to pursue Nature Positive Landscape approaches.
  • Co-develop a flexible, science-based framework to support landscape-specific multi-stakeholder Nature Positive Landscape Action Plans, as well as company-focused strategies, based around a structured, inclusive approach to action-planning for nature and people.
  • Motivate a shift in practice from site-level mitigation to genuine, landscape-scale, co-governed outcomes for nature, industry and Indigenous people and local communities.
  • Contribute to securing ecological integrity, expanding conservation beyond protected areas, strengthening policy and governance, and mobilizing private-sector investment in conservation.

Teams

Leaders

Hugo Costa

  • Wildlife Conservation Society

Jennifer McGowan

  • Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative | Arizona State University

Members

Luis Felipe Duchicela

  • Innovation & Sustainability Partners (ISP Global)

Marcela Marquez

  • Universidad Austral de Chile

Rachael Barza

  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Stefan Gelcich

  • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Carly Vynne

  • RESOLVE

Heather De Quincy

  • Anglo American

Bob Smith

  • University of Kent

Ray Victurine

  • Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative

Joe Kiesecker

  • The Nature Conservancy

Kendall Jones

  • Wildlife Conservation Society

Laura Sonter

  • The Biodiversity Consultancy | University of Queensland

Hugh Possingham

  • University of Queensland

Advisors

Bobby Ramirez

  • Resolution Copper

Sofia Herrera

  • Regional Government of Santiago Chile

Fabrice Inkonkoy

  • United Nations Environment Programme

Helen Crowley

  • Nature Positive Landscapes Initiative

Sharanya Kanikkannan

  • Wildlife Conservation Society

Claudia Silva

  • Wildlife Conservation Society

Amrei von Hase

  • Wildlife Conservation Society
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