Manumea Conservation Project Update December 23, 2025.
23 December 2025
Fa'afetai tele lava to everyone who has supported the Manumea Conservation Project. Your generosity is helping protect one of the world's rarest birds.
Over the past three years, our team has carried out intensive field expeditions across Samoa's forests to locate and monitor the Critically Endangered Manumea. In our most recent expeditions, which took place from October to November 2025, we confirmed sightings of an adult Manumea in the Uafato Conservation Area - one of its last remaining strongholds. This is a hopeful milestone, but it also highlights the urgency of action to secure the species' future.
Limited funding has constrained the scale of our work, particularly long-term monitoring, community surveys, and education programs. Despite this, your support has enabled meaningful progress.
We are now at a critical turning point. The next phase of the project will focus on continued monitoring, strengthening community-led conservation, improving equipment and logistics, and addressing threats such as invasive species and forest degradation.
Continued support is essential to turn these findings into lasting conservation outcomes. By donating or sharing this campaign, you are directly supporting the survival of Samoa's National Bird and helping ensure the Manumea remains part of our living forests.
Fa'afetai lava for standing with us. Your support truly matters.
Sending blessings your way from our Manumea Conservation Team.
p.s. The photo shows Manumea bird hide at Uafato