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High Chief Vaásiliifiti Moeelagi Jackson

Vaásiliifiti was the recipient of the 1994 Conservationist of the Year Award by the Seacology Foundation. Va'asilifiti was honored for her efforts in creating Fa'asao Savai'i, one of the first indigenous conservation organizations in the South Pacific. Through her efforts, more than 50 villages have joined the organization. Va'asilifiti required creation of a village rainforest preserve as the admission price from all villages that wished to join. The resultant patchwork of reserves throughout her home island of Savai'i proved so frustrating to the loggers that they gave up and left.(Seacology)

1994 - Chief Va'asilifiti Moelagi Jackson, President of Fa'asao Savai'i, Samoa: