6:01 am on 2 October 2017
Samoa's National Conservation
Society is pinning hits hopes on an international awareness campaign to save,
the manumea, Samoa's rare and elusive national bird.
The Society has teamed up with
Auckland Zoo and Samoa's Ministry of Natural Resources, and a UK team to save
the manumea.
Endemic to Samoa, the manumea is
a unique tooth-billed pigeon and faces threat of extinction due to
deforestation, the arrival of rats and cats and other human development on its
island home.
The President of the Samoa
Conservation Society, James Atherton, told Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, how rare the
manumea is.
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