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Can Tourism Save Mass Coffee Extinction?

big News!! Your morning cup of coffee may soon be under threat, as a combination of climate change, deforestation and plant disease threatens the world’s wild coffee species. Faced with growing concerns over a mass coffee extinction, coffee tourism offers an alternative to conserving these wild strains.

It is the drink that fuels the world. Yet, owing to changes in climate, at least 60% of all wild coffee species are being threatened with extinction, including two of the world’s most popular coffee strains: arabica

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