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Samoa

99
Total Protected Areas
0 With management effectiveness evaluations
Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas
Other effective area-based conservation measures
0
Total Other effective area-based conservation measures
Polygons/Points ratio
Polygons 23%
Points 77%
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Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
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Terrestrial and inland waters protected area coverage

7.79% Coverage

221km2 Land area covered

2,836km2 Total land area

PAME

0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km2 Areas assessed

Marine protected area Coverage

0.16% Coverage

205km2 Marine and coastal area covered

130,493km2 Total marine and coastal area

PAME

0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km2 Areas assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

IUCN Management Categories

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Governance types

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Sources 6

  1. Marine Managed Areas (MMAs) in the Pacific Updated: 2008 The WorldFish Center, ReefBase Project, Penang, Malaysia
  2. Pacific region protected areas Updated: 2003 University of Queensland, Australia
  3. Protected Areas of Samoa Updated: 2003 Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment for Samoa
  4. Other Protected Areas of Samoa Updated: 1988 Environment Planning for Tourism Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
  5. Source is currently unknown Updated: - Not Reported
  6. Protected areas of Samoa Updated: 2020 Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa via Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Designations

  • 95.96%
  • 2.02%
  • 2.02%

National designations

95
  • Community Based Fishery 59
  • Conservation Area 1
  • Marine Protected Area 6
  • Marine Reserve 1
  • National Park 5
  • Nature Reserve 1
  • Other Area 6
  • Reserve 16

Regional designations

0

    International designations

    2
    • Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance 2

    Other designations

    2
    • Marine Protected Area 2

    citation

    UNEP-WCMC (2025). Protected Area Profile for Samoa from the World Database on Protected Areas, March 2025. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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    UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2025), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], February 2025, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.