The village of Satuiatua on Savaii Island, has never been involved in depleting its existing forest resources, but is very concern about the ways of sustaining the village forestland, because of the increase in number of neighboring villages selling their forestland to loggers. The community would like to assess the current situation with their resources. They would like to pursue the following objectives;

Conduct a professional assessment of the forest area of Satuiatua village, which can provide accurate knowledge and information on areas where the forest is still intact and should be under conservation programme, while other areas are map out for subsistence agricultural use.
The grantee intends to work in partnership with the Ministry of Natural Resources Environment and Meteorology whom they have contacted for training on forest programmes.