"The monkey who saves the forest saves it..." - Congolese Proverb

“The monkey who saves the forest saves itself.”

- Congolesenature

Meaning

Protecting the community's shared resources is ultimately an act of self-preservation.

Congo rainforest ecology shows that every species depends on the forest's health. Destroying the habitat destroys all who live in it.

Origin

Congolese

Language

Lingala

“A frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.”

Sioux / South African

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money.”

Kenyan

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