"This 1 minute 34 second mpg infomercial is a collaborated effort by the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources and NOAA, Pacific Island Regional Office. Two American Samoan children share their distress of the increasing amount of trash flowing from...
"This 1 minute 22 second mpg infomercial is a collaborated effort by the Coral Reef Advisory Group (CRAG) and NOAA, Pacific Island Regional Office. It features various environmental agencies, students, and other American Samoan citizens encouraging all Am...
"This is a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on Saving Big Reef Fish to promote awareness on the importance of saving large reef fish to reproduce more eggs for more fish for the future in American Samoa. The PSA is in both English and Samoan. This PSA re...
"The watershed area has three distinguished habitats identified by the PLA participants for their importance in providing homes, nursery areas, feeding and spawning grounds for the key resources. These habitats have been identified for conservation and be...
Removal of invasive tamaligi trees - 2014 to 2015 summary report
"This progress report documents the work of American Conservation Experience (ACE) interns from the local Samoan community tasked with the removal of invasive Tamaligi trees in the Fagaalu Watershed from 1 May through 30 June 2015. To date, a total of 5,9...
Connectivity between MPA sites on Tutuila, American Samoa
"Coral reefs in American Samoa are characterized by low abundances of certain key reef species and few apex predators. In addition, many locations are impacted by polluted watersheds, sediment run-off and seasonal increases in sea temperatures. The causes...
Building resilience into coral reef management In American Samoa
"The poster describes (1) Impacts that pose threats and challenges to marine conservation, (2) What is lost when coral dies, (3) What resilience looks like for corals, and (4) What can we do? We cannot control climate change or global warming, but we can ...
Building and promoting community stewardship to take ownership and responsibility in managing their resources from land to reefs
"On June 24th and 25th, 2011, a PLA (participatory, learning and action) community workshop was carried out by NOAA PIRO field staff with support from partners of the Land-based Sources of Pollution Local Action Strategy (LBSP-LAS) group. Approximately 15...
Participatory, Learning and Action (PLA) resource guide for practitioners: to build, enhance and promote resource cconservation and management. American Samoa context
"The tools and activities developed in this guide were gathered from previous PLA workshops and meetings held with various communities and had shown great results to the resource managers to better understand the issues and recommendations to improve reso...
Natty Mars Beach
"The poster describes (1) Impacts that pose threats and challenges to marine conservation, (2) What is lost when coral dies, (3) What resilience looks like for corals, and (4) What can we do? We cannot control climate change or global warming, but we can ...
"The tools and activities developed in this guide were gathered from previous PLA workshops and meetings held with various communities and had shown great results to the resource managers to better understand the issues and recommendations to improve reso...