Tuesday 22 January 2019

Like Many People,

I enjoy a coffee or three during the day,


but according to many this small pleasure is under threat, the latest research indicates that about three-fifths of all our beloved coffee species are going to go extinct, this is a phenomenal amount of coffee that we risk losing and why? deforestation, climate change and the proliferation of pests and fungal pathogens are putting most of the world’s wild coffee species at risk of extinction, at least 60 percent of wild coffee species are considered “threatened,” according to a study published this week in Science Advances, and fewer than half of all the wild species are safeguarded in so-called germplasm collections, banks for seed and living plants kept in protected areas as backups, what would you do without your daily dose of coffee? read more about this bitter reality at the Scientific American, and here is a tip, please do not start panic buying, hording countless jars of coffee and packs of beans, wait until tomorrow, to give us time to get to the shops first!


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