SPREP country report : Western Samoa
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (SPREP)
1980
The Western Samoan Government (WSG) has approved and now awaits printing of the Fourth Five Year Plan 1980-84. The Plan, for the first timer contains a chapter (14) specifically on the environment, "Environmental Planning for Development", which tends to be more descriptive of problems than prescriptive of action to be taken on environmental issues. The WSG is possibly the sole island signatory to the draft "Convention for the Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific 1976" for which Western Samoa is the depository. The WSG is also in receipt (c.1978) of an inter-departmental recommendation on environmental policy.
