JOIN US this coming Thursday 22nd January 2015 at the  Tanoa Tusitala Hotel in Sogi, Apia from 9.30am to review Samoa’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). The NBSAP is the overall guiding document or plan to chart an environmentally sound and socially just direction for development in Samoa.

Samoa’s NBSAP is our response to the global call following the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992 for all nations to seriously consider the environment (and the people) in all development initiatives. Samoa’s first NBSAP was developed in the late 1990s and was endorsed by the Government in 2001. The Government is current updating the NBSAP and is encouraging all interested stakeholders to provide comments and inputs toward this process.

Despite efforts by governments, communities and partners, global biodiversity continues to decline and degrade at an alarming rate. Samoa’s biological diversity faces the same scenario with many of our species declining and becoming locally extinct (e.g. one species of giant clam – faisua – and our swallow-tail butterfly – pepe ‘ae).

This Thursday 22nd January, 2015 is an opportunity to work together with the Government, communities and many of our partners toward a sustainable future for our species and our islands.

If you wish to attend this – please contact Juney Ward as soon as possible. If you are interested in any of the documents relating to Samoa’s NBSAP – please contact the Samoa Conservation Society Secretary (conservesamoa@gmail.com).