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119-hres-346119th Congress

Expressing the need for protecting and conserving at least 50 percent of the land, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems in the United States and encouraging diplomatic community efforts to achieve this goal worldwide.

Sponsored By: Representative Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8]

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Summary

This resolution would set a goal to protect and conserve at least 50 percent of U.S. land, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems. It frames that pledge as a response to a sharp biodiversity crisis and as a strategy to reduce extinction risk, store carbon, and secure economic and health benefits from nature.

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  • Families: Greater access to protected nature is linked to physical and mental health benefits, cleaner drinking water, and lower air pollution.
  • Workers and the economy: The resolution highlights the outdoor recreation sector, which supported 5 million jobs and $1.2 trillion in gross output in 2023, as a stake in conservation efforts.
  • Wildlife and species: It responds to steep biodiversity declines, citing an average 73 percent drop in populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish from 1970 to 2020 and more than one million plant and animal species threatened with extinction.
  • Food systems: Protecting habitat supports pollinators and other species that underpin global food production valued at more than $500 billion.
  • Communities and stewardship: The text emphasizes using public private partnerships and respecting local and Indigenous stewardship and rights when designating and managing conserved areas.
  • Health security and innovation: Conserved places are noted as sources of new medicines and as ways to reduce local infectious disease risks and the chance of zoonotic spillover.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8]

VA • D

Cosponsors

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