The Department Of Marine & Wildlife Resources

The Department Of Marine & Wildlife Resources
Showing posts with label Lupelele Elementary School 5th Grade Outreach 30th November 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lupelele Elementary School 5th Grade Outreach 30th November 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Lupelele Elementary School Teachers received resources from the Information Education Division such as posters of fish, post cards, stickers, brochures and magnets. They can use these resources in Lupelele for their students and teachers can also post these posters on the wall to help them with their fish identification and also marine related topics.
Sione Lam Yuen Jr talking about the No-Take Marine Protected Area (MPA) Program in the Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources. Sione talked about the different MPA's in American Samoa such as the National Marine Monument (Rose Atoll), National Marine Santuary (Fagatele), National Park (Fagasa & Vatia) these are MPA's under the Federal, and MPA's under the Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources such as the Community Based Fishery Management Program (CFMP) (Matu'u and Faganeanea) and also the No-Take MPA (Fagamalo). Students from Lupelele Elementary School also learn why it is important to protect marine resources, why bigger fish are better than small fish, the different habitats needed when design an MPA and the benefits of having MPA's in American Samoa and especially them "Future Generations".
Maria Vaofanua and Lusila Minoneti were talking about the different species of Sea Turtles that we have here in American Samoa such as Hawksbill Sea Turtle and the Green Sea Turtle, Coral Reefs, Threats to the reefs, possible solutions that can protect and prevent corals from being killed by these threats. Students from Lupelele Elementary School also learned about the different programs that the Information Education Division (IED) at the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) have during the summer for children their age, such as the Le Tausagi summer camps where they learn about different marine related topics that the different government agencies offer for them.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Officers Hanipale and Mundy talking about rules and regulations that the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR)enforces to protect different marine and wildlife resources that we have here in American Samoa. Students also learned the different types of equipments the enforcement use on the patrol boat and what types of safety issues they should understand before getting on the patrol boat. Lupelele students also learn the different Life Jackets that the enforcement officers use on the boat when they are around the island of Tutuila Patrolling.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Approximately 95 fifth grade students from Lupelele Elementary School had a field trip to the Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources to learn about marine related topics. Students were divided in 3 groups; they rotated from the Enforcement Division that was assisted by officers Hanipale Hanipale and Mundy Ah Ching, Information Education Division that was assisted by Maria Vaofanua and Lusila Minoneti and finally the No-Take Marine Protected Area (MPA) Program assisted by Sione Lam Yuen Jr.