Savaii land resource use & forest resource use assessment for the following Government Project "The Conservation of Threatened Lowland and Upland Forests in Savaii"

Abstract

The conservation of lowland and upland forests on Savaii is still of high priority for the MNRE and Savaii’s forest resource owners because of past and on-going non-sustainable forestry practices. As the MNRE website (www.MNRE.gov.ws) states, “whilst some traditional practices have been quite sustainable, historically, Samoa has developed a cash economy by liquidating natural capital, a process having its origin in ‘the frontier’ culture of Western economies”.