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Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga's declaration that Manu’a’s marine and rainforest resources be developed has inspired a flurry of private sector economic development. At the heart of the development is the evidentiary research of Dr. Peter Craig of the National Park Service and Dr. Steve Palumbi, a leading marine biologist from Stanford University. They discovered that coral reefs along Ofu’s Toaga coast were resilient to temperature fluctuations that bleached reefs in Australia, Caribbean and Florida’s coastal waters.
