The Samoa Conservation Society (Fa’asao Samoa) is an environmental organisation based in Samoa. Its purpose is to promote the conservation of Samoa’s biological diversity and natural heritage.^[1] The society is active in efforts to save the critically-endangered Manumea, Samoa's national bird,^[2][3] and in forest restoration.^[4]

The society was established in 2013.^[5] Its founding president was Tofilau Tepa Suaesi.^[5] Its current president, elected in 2020, is James Atherton.^[6]

The society's first project was to save the manumea,^[7] and included raising awareness of its habitat and conservation status, and monitoring to understand its breeding and feeding habits.^[8] In 2017 it led an international campaign with Auckland Zoo and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to try and save the bird from extinction.^[9]

In 2016 the society began a pilot program with MNRE on offsetting carbon emissions by planting trees in O Le Pupu-Puʿe National Park.^[10] This was expanded in 2017 into a national carbon offsetting programme.^[11] In mid 2021 the programme planted 5,000 trees in 6 months ^[4] but has planted up to 25,000 trees since beginning in 2016.

In 2019 the society conducted a series of surveys to identify and take cuttings and seeds from endangered plants, which discovered that the endangered Vavea Samoense tree may be extinct.^[12]

In 2021 the society launched a petition campaign against The Coca-Cola Company's use of plastic bottles in Samoa.^[13]

In 2023 it announced plans to reintroduce the extinct butterfly Papilio godeffroyi to Samoa.^[14]

The society has the following objectives:^[15]

• To increase our knowledge and understanding of Samoa’s biodiversity and natural heritage through research and cataloguing of existing and new information;
• To improve awareness and of Samoa’s biodiversity through the exchange of information and environmental educational activities;
• To encourage the implementation of sustainable conservation projects and programmes that safeguard threatened species and ecosystems in collaboration with the Government of * Samoa, communities and other relevant stakeholders;
• To develop and strengthen collaborative partnerships between like- minded individuals, organisations, resource owners and Government agencies to achieve the objectives of the SCS;
• To raise funds and other resources that will assist with sustainable conservation projects, research and programmes for enhancing the protection of threatened species and vulnerable ecosystems.