HI SR40

Urges the United States government to establish a national biodiversity strategy to conserve and restore the nation's biodiversity, secure ecosystem services, and promote coordination among federal agencies, states, Indigenous communities, and other stakeholders.

Calls for the strategy to increase public awareness of biodiversity issues through robust engagement with federal and state agencies, Indigenous communities, communities of color, low-income communities, and private landowners.

Directs the strategy to include specific actions to conserve at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, establish science-based biodiversity conservation targets, protect threatened and endangered species, and enhance existing biodiversity laws and programs.

Emphasizes that Hawaii hosts over 550 endangered species (25 percent of the nation's total) while receiving only 3 percent of federal conservation funding, with particular impacts on Native Hawaiian communities and cultural practices.

Requires transmission of the resolution to the President, Congress, Interior Secretary, Commerce Secretary, EPA Administrator, and Hawaii's Congressional Delegation and state officials.