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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program developed this report of MPAs managed by state and territory governments in conjunction with federal, state, territory, and commonwealth partners. The information included in the report was collected in partnership with the National Marine Managed Area (MMA) Inventory that was conducted by the National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Center from 2001-2006. Inventory data was obtained through direct surveys with managers of coral reef MPAs and review of legal documents and management plans. This data is available in the Inventory of MMAs on the National MPA Center’s website at www.mpa.gov (National MPA Center 2006c). This report is based on data extracted from the inventory in July 2005. In the process of writing and reviewing this document, several of the jurisdictions revised and edited their MMA Inventory data.

As a small island developing state, Samoa is particularly vulnerable to the threat of climat change, which significantly hampers its economic development and progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs). In response to this threat, Samoa has prepared a National adaption programme of action (NAPA), which identifies the most urgent and immediate needs for adapting to the adverse efffects of climate change in the country. The preparation of the NAPA was done as part of samoa's commitment to implementing the united nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) which samoa, as a lease developed country (LDC) ratified the convention on 16 march 1993