Savaii land resource use & forest resource use assessment for the following Government Project "The Conservation of Threatened Lowland and Upland Forests in Savaii"
Brown, Steve
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Salele, Dr. Faamoetauloa Wood
2007
The conservation of lowland and upland forests on Savaii is still of high priority for the MNRE and Savaiis 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.