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Shade Coffee and Birds

To: "Laurie Knight" <>, "Birding Aus" <>
Subject: Shade Coffee and Birds
From: "Alan Gillanders" <>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:41:22 +1000
No all shade coffees are not equal.

Here in north Queensland people plant coffee because they think it might be cool to process their own. Usually this is only done once due to the labour involved. Birds love coffee and spread it around. It invades the rainforest. Seeds have along viability in the soil seed bank. I personally have spent many hours weeding it from national parks but some have spent more than a year of working hours doing this as volunteers!

Where coffee is not native it should be grown only away form areas it can easily invade.
Alan



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-----Original Message----- From: Laurie Knight
Sent: Monday, February 9, 2015 04:45 PM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: Shade Coffee and Birds

"The best coffee for biodiversity is organic shade coffee in Ethiopia, where the coffee is a native species of the forest,”

(all shade coffees are not equal)

see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150205082924.htm
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