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The South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP) is a five-year endeavour to identify, establish, and initially manage a series of large, diverse "conservation areas" containing ecologically important features of biodiversity conservation. The SPBCP is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and is executed by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

Over the past five years RARE Center has allocated more than US$ 500,000 to funding its Conservation Education Campaigns throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. Now active in twelve countries (Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas,Grenada, Belize, Jamaica, Nevis, Tobago and Anguilla) they, have reached out to more than 1.25 million people.

There is a growing concern in Western Samoa over environmental issues, and a growing under- standing of the need for economic development to be properly planned in order to take environ- mental constraints into account. Such an integra- tion of environment and development is generally referred to as sustainable development. It is a new thrust in die pursuit of an acceptable and dignified level of social well-being, and the primary focus of global development efforts today.

This report presents the results of an ifilele (Intsia bijuga) timber inventory of the Uafato Conservation Area (CA) on Upolu island, Samoa. It provides data on which to base recommendations for the sustainable management of ifilele in the CA. The inventory included a three week field survey of ifilele and a shorter community survey of ifilele harvesting practices in the conservation area.