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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga has signed into law a groundbreaking bill that designates coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure for American Samoa. This significant step underscores the government's commitment to safeguarding our marine ecosystems and ensuring the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The importance of coral reefs in protecting our islands from strong waves and surges, which would otherwise erode coastal land areas, and its role as a safe haven for various marine ecosystems consisting of various species of plants, fish and other sea creatures...
Ropati Opa sat in the shade on the side of the road beside a carpet of tropical greenery with a massive, fringing coral reef sitting just offshore.
He is the mayor of Leone, a seaside village on American Samoa, an island in the South Pacific between Hawaii and New Zealand. As such, it’s his...
MIAMI (AP) — Humans don’t know what they’re missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.” Just below the keels of massive ships, an underwater camera provides a live feed from another world, showing marine life that’s trying its best to resist global...
COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef.
Minutes later, like clockwork, they see eggs and sperm from spawning coral drifting past their boat. They scoop up the...
Miami, FLORIDA — The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from any continent. Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) has found that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed rule to designate critical habitat for seven threatened corals in U.S. waters in the Indo-Pacific is “not based on the best scientific information...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While supportive of federal conservation efforts, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga says he does not support additional federal regulation for coral critical habitat that are already protected under American Samoa law.
“American Samoa is already highly-federally...
Washington, D.C — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata focused on coral reef health in a Tuesday hearing of the Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife (WOW).
Congresswoman Amata is an original cosponsor of the bipartisan Restoring Resilient Reefs Act of 2021, H.R. 160,...
Hagåtña, GUAM — Federal officials did not consult Guam and other territories before designating shallow nearshore areas of Pacific islands as critical coral habits, and now senators are asking that the move be halted until they can have input.
In November, the National Marine Fisheries Service...