Acres Quote by Anderson Cooper

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists.…

— Corneille Ewango

Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when…

— Corneille Ewango

No other country in the world has as many forests as we do.

— Jair Bolsonaro

The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land…

— Alice Walker

I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in…

— Anjan Sundaram

“The extent of forests around the world has declined by an estimated 16.4 million km2 (36% of the historical extent) over the last 200 years (Meiyappan & Jain, 2012).”

— Shaun C. Cunningham

The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except…

— Anonymous

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

— Dikembe Mutombo

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

— Douglas Wilder

One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from…

— Al Gore

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

— Chris Kilham

“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers…

— Tim Butcher