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This report is the review of terrestrial biological information in Samoa and was written by MNRE with the technical support of Conservation International (CI). It is a contribution to Samoa’s Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) which is currently being implemented by the Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment (MNRE), with funding provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Samoa has 13 declared protected areas (PAs), including three Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and 3 community managed conservation areas (CAs) (see annex 1). The terrestrial coverage of Samoa’s protected area network is approximately 7% of Samoa’s land area. However Samoa’s Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (SBSAP) has a target protected area coverage of 15% of land and presumably, near shore (Schuster and Butler (eds) 2001).