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Choosing new site for trial hive Uafato Conservation Area Samoa Dion Ale (CASO) and Bill Moore (up front) May 1999

The main environmental concerns for Samoa are depicted in this 15 minute video. Some of these are; the alarming rate of deforestation, freshwater supply, the degradation of reefs due to use of dynamite, coastal pollution resulting in further coral damage, continuing destruction of coastal mangroves, and the resulting decrease of fish stock in the lagoon. SPREP and the Environment Department have formulated a National Environmental Management Strategy; NEMS, which will identify policies to deal with these environmental problems. It is hoped that with the implementation of these policies, we can all continue to enjoy a cleaner and improved environment today and in the distant future.

The National Environment Sector Plan (NESP) 2022/2023 – 2026/2027 updates the NESP 2017-2021. It is based on the most recent State of the Environment (SOE) assess- ment documented in 2023, and lessons learned from the previous NESP.

This special occasion is our way to acknowledge Samoa’s leadership in the region and its continued support to SPC, USP, and SPREP. We would also like to highlight through this video, the contribution of the three CROP organisations towards Samoa’s sustainable development in key areas that are within the purview of the respective organisations for example higher learning and education, environment, climate change, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, land management, culture, and public health to name a few.

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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.