ROSE ATOLL
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It is trending on our social media platforms — Rose Atoll. You say opening Rose Atoll is beneficial to our economy. We have to be more realistic. Are we really choosing money over our environment?
If we go and fish there, it will hurt nature and the environment. It...
In the quiet blue of the endless sea,
There lies a place still wild and free,
A ring of coral, soft and bright,
Where waves whisper day and night.
Rose Atoll stands, untouched, alone,
A fragile world the ocean has grown,
With birds that soar and turtles that glide,
And secrets beneath the tide.
The...
Introduction: Rose Atoll’s Enduring Significance
Rose Atoll, known as Muliava to our ancestors, is far more than a name on a map. A significant part of Amerika Samoa—a living symbol of our shared identity, our legacy, and the unbreakable bond between our people and the ocean that cradles us.
For...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Efforts to maintain longstanding protections for Muliava (Nu’u o Manu, Le Oneone Sa o Tuimanu’a, Rose Atoll) have advanced considerably, with widespread support emerging from across Amerika Samoa for the preservation of one of the territory’s most ecologically and...
The American Samoa Democratic Party (ASDP) stands in solidarity with the leaders and people of Manu‘a in safeguarding the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument for the present and future citizens of American Samoa. Rose Atoll is a sacred ecological and cultural treasure, central to our food security...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In late October, the Fine Arts Department at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) partnered with the local U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to present the premiere of “Blue Continent”, a new short film about Rose Atoll. An uninhabited wildlife refuge, Rose Atoll is...
Rose Atoll, AMERICAN SAMOA — The southernmost point of the United States is not in Florida or Hawaii… or even in the northern hemisphere. It’s here, the smallest in this chain of American Samoa islands.
To get there, we chartered a boat from Pago Pago in American Samoa, 180 miles — about an 8-hour...
Fort Collins, COLORADO — The Global Biodiversity Center at Colorado State University held its second annual Biodiversity, Bluegrass and Brews event on Sept. 26.
The aim of the event is to create further awareness across the university’s campus and within the Fort Collins community about the Global...