Forest in Samoa

Aboriginal institutions, resilience and failure of joint management of rainforest conservation areas in Samoa.

Forest-Café

Nice laid-back surroundings and good meals at a reasonable price. Forestcafe' s unbelievable stunning scenery, tasty cuisine & recreational ambience in a stunning rain forest area. It' my favorite café in Samoa, for sure! Hello everyone, please take a look at our new opening times. We can still only book large groups during the NOW HOLD DATE, please let us know 24hrs before.

Thanks to the nice Australian couple who came to the café today with their drone and took these great photos for us!

SOCIAL FOREST, NATURE AND THE MIND

Its first editions contain a comprehensive collection of tribal writings and customs written by the people of the Far East, but also by missionsaries and other visitors, often translated into their own language with British translation. Scientists who have long written contributions for the journal include sociocultural ethnologists, archeologists, historians, logisticians, loggists and physical-biological anthropologists working in Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia.

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DRAFT LAW WOULD PROTECT'CRITICAL' FOREST IN AMERICAN SAMOA

Samoa, PAGO PAGO (Samoa News, August 29) - "A federally and locally funded plan to rescue 40 acre of the lowland lava forest in the area of American Samoa in Ottoville by purchase to transform it into a national park is noted in a bill in Washington D.C. that is now being reviewed by the US Senate.

It is a tava forest, a species of forest that is quickly vanishing from American Samoa." United States Forest Services, John Henshaw, the Pacific Forest Legacy Manager, described the Lowland Lava Rainforest as "of vital importance" to the American Samoa world.

Tutuila and Aunu'u now have only 122 hectares of mangroves, explains Henshaw, which have declined by 30 per cent since 1992. With this speed, there will be no more mangroves in American Samoa in 25 years. Landowners plan to commercialise the area if no funds are available to finance the Forest Legacy Project and Henshaw says that this trend means that "the environmental value of this last part of the remaining low-lying rain forest will be wasted.

" A lot has been made of the relict of the lowlands rain forest because it is thought to be the only one of its kind in the area. In July 2003 Samoa News released an essay by then American Samoa Territorial Forester Sheri S. Mann, who wrote: "The forest is an important and practical natural, environmental and water logical asset for the population of American Samoa and its near capitol Pago Pago.

" He added that the forest is one of a kind in its capacity to restore important types of hard wood such as tava (Pometia pinnata), fogamamamamala (Omanthalus nutans) and Ifilele  Pacific Teak (Intsia bijuga). "The forest is a haven for endangered birds and bats (e.g. Pteropus veloensis, P. tonganus), often driven out by common tropic winds and cyclones.

The perhaps most important part of this forest is that it is one of the few areas where there is no disturbance, where it is possible for ground waters to seep into the aquifers, which supply the whole islands with potable water," Mann stressed. Ottoville forest is also the only place on the islands (and one of only two places in the territory) where the local indigenous Dendrocnide harvesti ( "salato") is found.

Much of the 112 pottery vines that have been logged at this site are used in Samoan medicine. The area is an important home for the two endangered indigenous bat populations - the Samoan bat (Pteropus samoensis) and the White-necked bat (Pteropus tonganus) - and for several indigenous bird populations, such as the indigenous Samoastar (Aplonis atrifusca), the Purple Crested Imperial Pigeon, the Multicoloured Orchid Pigeon and the Pacific Pigeon.

This 40-hectare, scarce low-land basin of Lavastrom rainforests is situated on the Tafuna plain, known as "Ottoville", of which the Otto Haleck dynasty has about 30 hectares, which are currently split into seven plots of land belonging to the Halecks. News has been advised that part of the forest area was recently purchased by the Forsgrens, who attempted to obtain a licence to construct a camp (and vacated part of the land), but was rejected by the Project Notification and Review System Board (PNRS) in a ruling that was later confirmed by the administrative judge.

Another 5 hectares of forest to the oldest and biggest church in the area, the Christian Congregational Church of American Samoa (CCCAS), for $750,000. An area of 50 feet x 300 feet of the new property should be used by CCCAS as a car park. The Project Revision and Notification System Board (PRNS), however, on July 2 decided against the suggestion One weeks later, a second suggestion, also from CCCAS, for the clearance of an area of 20ftx100ft.

PRNS Board approved the suggestion and the area was evacuated at the end of July, coinciding with the celebrations of the new CCAS-Chamber. It is bordered to the southwest by the Fatu o Aiga Catholic complex, to the southwest by a street between it and the Kanana Fou parish, to the northeast by the Fonoti family estate and to the westward by the Tau'ili'ili family estate.

When the bill is currently licensed in Congress, Henshaw says the country would be earned through easy acquisition of the charge or, if possible, through a preservation facilitation. Hopefully, voluntary organisations and individual swordsmen would perform the sword work, and once the area is included, the ASCC/CNR (American Samoa Community College/Community and Natural Resources Forestry Program) and the DMWR (Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources) will join forces to create an "unobtrusive forest path, along with the appropriate signposting, and an educational programme for the Samoa US school would be designed to use the area in a school.

"Prohibition of hunt would be strict and the only non-educational use of the country that would be permitted would be the gathering of tradional healing plant by locals, as long as this would not compromise the forest's health. "Some of the goals are the creation of an educative programme that includes a unity on the American Samoa rain forest, the creation of a forest where indigenous healing herbs can be preserved, and the area' s evolution into an eco-tourism programme so that birdwatchers can visit the area.

In order to see and appreciate the location of local birdlife, a scheme that could be seen as a precious instrument for enhancing the tourist industry.