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It is important to respect Samoa’s traditional knowledge, values, pre-existing perceptions and relationship towards environment, conservation, and community development. Effective community engagement needs cooperation from community members, stakeholders, community leaders, partners, and all those in association with the engagement effort—especially village and community leadership. This must be trustbased. Building relationships is a key part of reciprocal respect and a foundation of learning.

The Green Livelihoods project is being led by Samoa Conservation Society (SCS) with funding from the Civil Society Support Programme (CSSP). It has two objectives that are closely related to Samoa: 1. to raise awareness amongst youths of Samoa's environment of the range of threats facing it and how to manage these environmental threat. 2. to promote and demonstrate Green livelihood options amongst youth

The purpose o the manual is provide practical guidance to technicians attempting to plan and control rodents (rats and mice) using poison baiting for biodiversity conservation purposes under Samoan forest conditions. The methodology outlined in this manual is the result of efforts to assess the effectiveness of using rodent bait at the Malololelei Recreation reserve since 2017.