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Samoa

Endangered Heritage in Samoa

Small Island Developing States often face natural disaster and climate change risks to their their cultural heritage including sea levels rise, coastal erosion and extreme weather events e.g Cyclone Winston.

Wikimedia activity in Samoa

None known

Immovable cultural heritage management in Samoa

Immovable cultural heritage management in Samoa is managed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture who hold a national register of immovable cultural heritage. The Pacific SIDS have a small number of immovable cultural heritage sites meaning there is a risk of the time taken to include the states in the project, however integrating the information into Wikidata will be simple.

Legal protection for immovable cultural heritage works in Samoa

Not known

Policy decisions on access to public information

Not known

Legislations hindering the distribution of pictures in Samoa

None known

Museums or archives that might be willing to make their digitized material available under a free license

It may be possible to work with Museum of Samoa.

Network of contacts: Cultural heritage organizations and agencies

The UNESCO Office for the Pacific States and the Pacific SIDS and the Pacific Heritage Hub are working with the Pacific Small Island Developing States to document their immovable cultural heritage including the states which do not yet have cultural heritage registers (all Pacific SIDS except Samoa, Fiji and Samoa). It may be possible to assist UNESCO and PHH in collating national lists for the countries which do not have them yet.