• Samoan youth in traditional clothing.

    National Park of American Samoa

    American Samoa

For Teachers

Alataua elementary students bird watching over at Lower Sauma Ridge Trail.
Alataua elementary students bird watching over at Lower Sauma Ridge Trail. 
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The park is an outdoor laboratory for Samoan schools and it offers opportunity for guided field trips. For detailed information contact the park ranger at (684) 633-7082.

The park and its staff can be a local true-life example in the value of applying oneself in school. Three quarters of the national park staff are local Samoans.

List of Available Education Programs

Natural History Guide to American Samoa

Did You Know?

Samoan fruit bats hanging at rest

Throughout the Pacific the main reason for the rarity of the two fruit bat species, or flying foxes, is that it is widely sought as a food and considered a delicacy.  Sale or trade in fruit bats is now illegal in the U.S. and its territories.