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
Alan's Wildlife Tours
2 Mather Road
Yungaburra 4884
Phone 07 4095 3784
Mobile 0408 953 786
http://www.alanswildlifetours.com.au/
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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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