The pe'a, as bats are called in Samoan, have had a hard time recently. As well as being a source of food during famine and an earner of foreign currency - it is considered a delicacy in Guam and commands a very high price - they have suffered habitat loss through deforestation and massive population depletion as a result of the hurricanes in the early 1990s.

Bat Conservation International produces a quarterly magazines called, unsuprisingly, Bats. Most of the articles from the magazine are available online and we have searched their archives to produce a list articles chronicling the fate of the bats in both Samoa and American Samoa during the past two decades.