60% of coffee varieties face 'extinction risk'
date:Jan 17, 2019
60 percent of all coffee sold worldwide. It exists in the wild in just two countries: Ethiopia and South Sudan.

The team at Kew accessed climate data recorded in Ethiopia going back more than 40 years to measure how quickly the coffee's natural habitat was being eroded by deforestation and rising temperatures.

They found that nearly a third of all wild Arabica species were grown outside conservation areas.

You've also got the fact that a lot of those protected areas are still under threat fro
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