60% of coffee varieties face 'extinction risk'
date:Jan 17, 2019
yal Botanic Gardens used the latest computer modelling techniques and on-the-ground research to predict how the 124 coffee varieties listed as endangered might fare as the planet continues to warm and ecosystems are decimated.

Some 75 coffee species were assessed as being threatened with extinction: 13 classed as critically endangered, 40 as endangered, including coffea arabica, and 22 as vulnerable.

Overall, the fact that the extinction risk across all coffee species was so high - nearly 60 p
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