SAMOA - December 2000
Translation of Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest into Samoan
This book by Paul Alan Cox, Ph.D. is the first book ever written to address environmental conservation in Samoa. It chronicles the efforts to save the Falealupo rainforest, which was the genesis of Seacology. Most people in Samoa do not have access to this book, which was published in English. Seacology has funded the translation of the book into Samoan and the production of an audiotape, which will be distributed to schools and communities and will air on Samoan radio.
UPDATE November 2003 - The translation of Nafanua has been completed. Preliminary readings and recordings of the translation were conducted last summer and in October.
