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Samoa has been termed "The Heart of Polynesia". The Samoa Visitors Bureau has prepared this promotional video as a guide to assist tourists and visitors with information concerning the services and facilities offered by the Tourism Industry and local communities within Samoa, providing footage of the town of Apia, rental companies, and a visit to the tomb of famour writer/poet; Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Afulilo Hydro Power Augmentation Project was designed specifically to assist with the Upolu power system stability. Demand for energy has been growing in line with growth in maximum demand and, while the Afulilo scheme is producing more energy than anticipated, the sustainable energy outflow of the present scheme is limited by water inflows, reservoir storage volume and installed generation capacity. Because the Afulilo scheme is the only hydro scheme in Samoa with carry over storage, augmentation of the Afulilo scheme is paticularly important to increase dry season capacity to reduce the amount of installed diesel capacity to reduce overall fuel consumption and to lessen the dry season peak in fuel consumption.

In recognition of the need for National Parks and protected areas in the South Pacific, the New Zealand Government hosted the First South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves in 1975, in association with the South Pacific Commission (SPC) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This meeting was at Ministerial. A second South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves, also at Ministerial level, was held in 1979 in Australia. This was hosted by the Australian Government and the Government of New South Wales, which adopted the conference as one of the events celebrating the Centennial of the Royal NationaL Park as the first national park in Australia. The 1979 Conference decided that the third Conference should be hosted by a Pacific Island country.

This is the Verbatim Transcript, Volume 2 proceeedings of the second South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves held in April 1979 in Sydney Australia

The 22nd SPREP Meeting (22SM) was convened in Apia, Samoa from 13 to 15 September 2011. Representatives of the following SPREP countries and territories attended: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, France, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, United States of America and Vanuatu.   Ministers from French Polynesia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu were present. Observers from a range of regional, international and non?governmental organisations (NGOs) also attended.   A list of participants is attached as Annex 1.  

The Cook Islands comprises 15 islands of which 12 are inhabited. The total land area is 240 square kilometers dispersed over an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 1.8 million square kilometers in the Southern Pacific Ocean. The Cook Islands may be divided into two main geographical regions: Southern Group islands and Northern Group islands. All islands outside Rarotonga (capital of the Cook Islands) are referred to as the Outer Islands. Rarotonga and the Southern Group islands are generally younger volcanic islands, while the Northern Group is low lying coral atolls.

The tree provides heavy shade. Leaves and nut oil are used in traditional Samoan medicine.

The bark and leaves of this shrub are used in traditional Samoan medicines.