Speakers and presenters from the "Beyond 30x30" symposium during the 7th International Marine Conservation Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. This piece was first published in Mongabay . In his first week in office back in 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden   signed   a historic commitment to conserve 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030. Two years later, the world agreed to a similar commitment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The initiative, commonly known as 30×30, has since become a rallying cry around the world for more and better conservation. But among an avalanche of other executive actions in the past month, President Donald Trump overturned the U.S.’s 30% commitment. Given a chaotic first few weeks, this action went largely unreported, but like many of the things happening in the U.S. right now, it will have global implications. This loss is significant. The U.S.’s 30×30 goal  enshrined  in the America the Beautiful for All initia...