Much the same with Olives here in NSW. Around 10-15 years age Olives were
touted as a the latest wonder crop. Now there are many more or less abandoned
olive plantations around the state, with feral trees springing up around the
properties. Birds such as Currawongs love olives, and disperse the seeds far
and wide.
Car Clifford
> On 10 Feb 2015, at 10:41 am, Alan Gillanders <>
> wrote:
>
> 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: [Birding-Aus] 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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