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Bioregions are spatial units of the marine environment that host similar biota, and can serve to provide spatially explicit surrogates of biodiversity for marine conservation and management,

O le ogasami faalenatura o se faavasegaga lea o siosiomaga eseese i le sami o loo nofoai ma maua ai meaola o tutusa o latou uiga ma olaga i ni vaega laiti.

The Samoan Government's Samoa Oceans Strategy (SOS) 2020-2030 aims to support ecosystem-based adaptation by implementing national scale Marine Spatial plan (MSP) while strengthening community engagement in actions that enhance resilience to the impacts of climate change.

The vulnerability of the people of Saoluafata and Lano are a cumulative impact of exposure,to climate related risks reflecting both climatic conditions and location of human settlement,assets and infrastructure and the capacity of the people to cope with the climate related risks. Communities have been adapting in the past and still are adapting today, however,extreme climate related extreme events are increasing which have greatly impacted on the livelihoods of the people and their socioeconomic and physical environment.